stumped?
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Sat Apr 27 08:28:13 EDT 2002
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im going to try some things today. i have gotten close, with wine apparently only having 1 problem with a handler. however, as i was sifting through one of my many Linux books, I came across something very interesting that i want to try out today, as i think this may be the way i had wine working before.
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the interesting thing is that normally, or as is called out in the man pages of wine, etc., is that the syntax for starting wine would be something like "wine C:\\windows\\sol.exe" to run solitare, however, in one of my books and i do remember using this before, it calls for the syntax to be as such "wine /mnt/windows/sol.exe"
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it probably has alot to do with the way the config file is laid out but its worth a shot at this point...
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On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 22:16, Robert Meyer wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>InstallShield is the installer that a lot of windows programs use. It's</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>not an added piece of software. When the program's builder packages</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the software for installation on other systems, he uses the InstallShield</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>install builder to make the 'setup.exe' file. The 'setup.exe' is the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>program that does the install. Wine will not run the 'setup.exe' program</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>correctly. Since software installs in Windows do lots of strange things</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>to the system, the behavior is very hard to handle.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>What I was saying is that if you install programs under Windows</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>and then try to access them via Wine, you might have better luck. I don't</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>know enough about it to know if you can somehow extract the registry entries</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>or if Wine will use the Windows registry.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>I also remember reading about some version of Wine (maybe WineX or CodeWeavers</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Wine) that can handle InstallShield installer based installs (ewww.. how many</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>more times can I use the word 'install' in a sentence?).</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Cheers!</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Bob</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Ok, is this a program that can be installed under windows, where can it</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> be had? I was trying to get programs running that were already installed</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> on the windows partition. the install shield probably gets invoked on</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> w2k installs but shouldnt on win95/98 installs, i dont know. That is why</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> i was curious about the install of wine that doesnt rely at all on any</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> current/native windows install, i figured it would take that right out</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> of the picture</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:04, Robert Meyer wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> >From what I understand, Wine currently doesn't support the InstallShield</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> installer.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> That is why trying to install a lot of programs bombs under wine. I</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> don't</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> know any way around it (and I've spent quite a bit of time trying). </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Installing</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> under Windows and then trying to run it from Linux might work...might</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> not.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Just a thought...</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Bob</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> --- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > Am I understanding this correctly? Is there a package that needs to be</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > installed in windows that will help/assist wine to work in Linux?</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 09:04, Robert Meyer wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > I would imagine that if you actually install the</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > package under</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > windows and then make the Windows C drive the same for Wine, it</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> might</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > actually</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > work.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> > </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> =====</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Bob Meyer</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Bob Meyer</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Knightwing Communications, Inc.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>36 Cayuga Blvd</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Phone: 716-308-8931 or 716-681-0076</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Meyer_RM at Yahoo.com</FONT></FONT></I>
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