msi file

[James Collier]

Hi David,
I installed and ran commsecpro just to check it runs.
So we'll get this working eventually.
.NET is a technology developed by Microsoft to allow applications to
developed quickly.
The free software implementation of this is called Mono. It may be worth
doing a little research on Mono yourself: www.mono-project.com

So in order to make CommsecPro work we need a .NET environment. It's
better to implement this with Mono rather than .NET.
dotnetfx.exe is part of the Windows implementation of .NET and is
useless by itself.

We can install the required Mono libraries via the Synaptics Package
Manger: 
	-System > Administration > Synaptics Package Manager (You will 			 need
to enter your password)
	-Search for "Mono"
	-Select the following for *installation*:
libmono0
libmono1.0-cil
libmono2.0-cil
libmono-cairo1.0-cil
libmono-cairo2.0-cil
libmono-corelib1.0-cil
libmono-corelib2.0-cil
libmono-corelib2.1-cil
libmono-data-tds1.0-cil
libmono-data-tds2.0-cil
libmono-microsoft7.0-cil
libmono-microsoft8.0-cil
libmono-system1.0-cil
libmono-system2.0-cil
libmono-system2.1-cil
libmono-system-data1.0-cil
libmono-system-data2.0-cil
libmono-system-runtime1.0-cil
libmono-system-runtime2.0-cil
libmono-system-web1.0-cil
libmono-system-web2.0-cil
libmono-winforms1.0-cil
libmono-winforms2.0-cil
mono-common
mono-runtime

	-Click the "Apply" button to install the packages.

Unfortunately I can only guess at what libraries will be required!

Ok, now onto the problem you alluded to when you tried to run the msi.
That's caused by the Hardy kernel update that breaks something in Wine:
http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem
A workaround is on the above page.
Run the following to apply the workaround: 
[CODE]
sudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf
[/CODE]
Find the line that reads:
	vm.mmap_min_addr = 65536
and change it to:
	vm.mmap_min_addr = 0
Save the file.
then run:
[CODE]
sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0
[/CODE]

Now try "msiexec -i commsecpro.msi" again.
By the way, you don't need to be in the wine tools directory. Move
commsecpro.msi to your home directory and run msiexec -i commsecpro.msi
from there.

I hope I havn't confused you too much, if I have, let me know and I'll
put something graphical on the web.
Try that anyway,

James


On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:47 +1000, david wrote:
> Hi James 
> thanks for the response.
> Yes that was me back in 07. Not much changed, only older and there fore
> harder to teach the old dog the new tricks.
>  i think you mean "wine" by my windows installer, is that right?
> 
>  I tried as you wrote changing to the wine tools directory and
> -i commsecpro.msi
> 
> david at david-desktop:~/winetools$ msiexec -i commsecpro.msi
> preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
> preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
> err:dosmem:setup_dos_mem Cannot use first megabyte for DOS address
> space, please report
> preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
> err:do
> etc
> 
>  The man from commsec said i needed to have the dotnetfx.exe
> program to make commsecpro work.
> 
> 
> 
> n Tue, 2008-06-03 at 19:31 +1000, James Collier wrote:
> > David,
> > I assume you've read or were the author of this thread:
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=602942
> > here you were almost on the right track!
> > WINE comes with it's own msiexec!!!
> > And they've thoughtfully placed it on the path.
> > So all you have to do is:
> > 1.
> > 	Open a terminal (window)
> > 
> > 2.
> > 	cd ~/$my_windows_installers$
> > 
> > 3.
> > 	msiexec -i commsecpro.msi
> > 
> > This should produce the desired result, I'm not sure where dotnetfx.exe
> > fits in but come back with your results.
> > Hope that helps,
> > 
> > James
> > 
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> > * This is the first time in history someone else *
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/*************************************************
*INTERESTING FACT:                               *
* Why are restricted formats and software bad?   *
* This is the first time in history someone else *
* has decided where your music plays!            *
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryXDhXqR-SE     *
*************************************************/

My System: Ubuntu 8.04 GNU/Linux 2.6.24-17-generic x86_64 
My website: https://launchpad.net/~james-collier412
   www.morerowdy.blogspot.com 

Started: Wed Jun 4 21:09:38 EST 2008