stumped?

[Robert Meyer]

InstallShield is the installer that a lot of windows programs use. It's
not an added piece of software.  When the program's builder packages
the software for installation on other systems, he uses the InstallShield
install builder to make the 'setup.exe' file.  The 'setup.exe' is the
program that does the install.  Wine will not run the 'setup.exe' program
correctly.  Since software installs in Windows do lots of strange things
to the system, the behavior is very hard to handle.

What I was saying is that if you install programs under Windows
and then try to access them via Wine, you might have better luck.  I don't
know enough about it to know if you can somehow extract the registry entries
or if Wine will use the Windows registry.

I also remember reading about some version of Wine (maybe WineX or CodeWeavers
Wine) that can handle InstallShield installer based installs (ewww.. how many
more times can I use the word 'install' in a sentence?).

Cheers!

Bob
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> Ok, is this a program that can be installed under windows, where can it
> be had? I was trying to get programs running that were already installed
> on the windows partition. the install shield probably gets invoked on
> w2k installs but shouldnt on win95/98 installs, i dont know. That is why
> i was curious about the install of wine that doesnt rely at all on any
> current/native windows install, i figured it would take that right out
> of the picture
> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:04, Robert Meyer wrote:
> 
>     >From what I understand, Wine currently doesn't support the InstallShield
>     installer.
>     That is why trying to install a lot of programs bombs under wine.  I
> don't
>     know any way around it (and I've spent quite a bit of time trying). 
> Installing
>     under Windows and then trying to run it from Linux might work...might
> not.
>     
>     Just a thought...
>     
>     Bob
>     --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
>     > Am I understanding this correctly? Is there a package that needs to be
>     > installed in windows that will help/assist wine to work in Linux?
>     > On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:04, Robert Meyer wrote:
>     > 
>     >     I would imagine that if you actually install the
>     >     package under
>     >     windows and then make the Windows C drive the same for Wine, it
> might
>     > actually
>     >     work.
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     > 
>     
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36 Cayuga Blvd
Depew, NY 14043
Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076
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