Wine and wine tools in Dapper

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday, 5 March 2006 20:35, Paco Ros wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've just switched from a Debian Sid to Dapper.
> I succeeded installing Internet Explorer in Sid by using
> wine-tools.

Which wine version worked properly on sid?

> But this trick doesn't work in my new Dapper.
>
> This is what happens when executing wine ie6setup.exe:
>
> paco at blackbox:~/winetools/sys$ wine ie6setup.exe
> err:heap:HEAP_CreateSystemHeap system heap base address 0x80000000
> not available
> fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "C:\\windows\\temp\\IXP001.TMP\\"
> 00000000 err:heap:HEAP_CreateSystemHeap system heap base address
> 0x80000000 not available
> err:heap:HEAP_CreateSystemHeap system heap base address 0x80000000
> not available
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
> err:heap:HEAP_GetPtr Invalid heap (nil)!
>
> And nothing more happens.
>
> I hate this browser, but I need it to check some web designs. I
> belong to a well known LUG [bulma.net] and I know and defend all
> the benefits of free software.
>
> I think maybe some wine package is missing. I've tried to install
> it from dapper universe repository and from wine Debian & ubuntu
> repository: wine:
>  *** 0.9.9-winehq-1 0
>         500 http://wine.sourceforge.net binary/ Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      0.9.6-0ubuntu1 0
>         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
>
> Is there anybody here who installed wine + IE succesfully on
> dapper?

I've gotten wine running on many different distros, but each time I 
had to forget all about the "official" packages for the distro and 
just install from source. There's a reason for the existence 
of /usr/local, and this unfortunately is one of them.

Wine seems to advance and regress considerably between versions, and 
overall the quality is similar to a CVS snapshot. True to form, 
sometimes it doesn't even compile.

The best advise I can give is to download the latest version, compile 
and see if it works. If not, download the version that worked 
properly on sid, rinse, repeat. Check the errors carefully, and make 
full use of the WINEDEBUG channels. Winetools sets the following libs 
to (native,builtin): setupapi, setupx, wininet

If this still doesn't help, then one by one install versions earlier 
than 0.9.9 till you find one that works.

Good luck. :-)

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
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