Wine Question

[Wade Smart]

04062006 1634 GMT-6

Ok. I have to revise what I said.
When I run the installer program, Swishmax installs and then runs.
Everything is fine until I exit the program. Then there is no trace of
the program. There arent any install files, nothing.

Does that say anything to you at all or am I just better going back
to duel booting?

Thanks Alan

Alan McKinnon wrote:

>On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:58, Wade Smart wrote:
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>>04052006 1738 GMT-6
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>>Some time ago I installed Wine from Sidenet. It installed IE, which
>>was exactly what
>>I needed at the time. Now I have a few apps I want to run like
>>SWiSHmax. When I installed SWiSHmax it ran right after start up but
>>then I cant get the app to work.
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>That's still very common with wine - it's alpha software and many 
>things don't work yet. Nothing to get alarmed about, often you can 
>get the stuff to work anyway.
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>>So I installed it again. And the same thing.
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>That's normal in Linux. When you reinstall or reboot you normally get 
>the same problem again.
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>>Im wondering if its this specific install of Wine.
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>Could be - wine is very dynamic, the developers tend to fix 10 things 
>and break 3 every month
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>>What if I installed a second wine. Would that cause problems?
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>It won't cause problems if you do it right, but it also won't fix your 
>problem. What you have is that some feature in Win32 is not 
>implemented yet in wine and your app breaks or does funny stuff. 
>Example - a common recurring fault is that the Outlook splash screen 
>doesn't go away. It'll be fixed one day....
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>To get your app to work, visit wine's site and check the app database 
>if someone has documented what it needs to run properly. Otherwise 
>you need to get in there and get your hands dirty. Download the docs 
>from www.winehq.org and read 'em - especially the bit about opening 
>and logging channels. It's awfully hard to help you through this if 
>you are not yet comfortable with the guts of wine. Briefly, start by 
>doing this:
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>In a terminal, "export WINE_DEBUG=+loaddll" then run your app - "wine 
>swishmax.exe" or whatever. Wine will print each dll it loads to the 
>console and eventually fail with an error message. You need to find 
>which dll is not doing what it needs to, so the general idea is you 
>copy the real Windows dlls used one by one from a Windows partition 
>to your ~/.wine, run winecfg and tell wine to run that dll 'native' 
>for that app. Then try again. If you are lucky one of them causes a 
>large change and that is a clue to what to do next.
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>If you feel you are up for the challenge, mail me back and we'll take 
>it from there. It's not easy but it is fun in a perverse sort of 
>way... :-)
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