<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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: <blockquote cite="mid200604062153.27372.alan@linuxholdings.co.za" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thursday 06 April 2006 00:58, Wade Smart wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">04052006 1738 GMT-6 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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">So I installed it again. And the same thing. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's normal in Linux. When you reinstall or reboot you normally get the same problem again. </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Im wondering if its this specific install of Wine. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Could be - wine is very dynamic, the developers tend to fix 10 things and break 3 every month </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">What if I installed a second wine. Would that cause problems? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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.... 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.winehq.org">www.winehq.org</a> 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: 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. 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... :-) </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>