Help with linux please

[J a M e S]

Hey peeps.. i got my new server today, so i decided to try something new and go for LINUX!

its really cool in all.. but i would like some help on how i can at least open my room in FXS and or a web server...

i tryed opening a temp room in WCS till i could figure it out.. but it wont let me seems it wont read the cofig file...

if i download the linux version from kingmacro.net it will open from the gz file but if i extract it.. it asks me what to open it with

I am using Exandros

computer spec is: 667Mhz 256Mb RAM 10Gb

[J a M e S]

Meh... o well

*installs win2k*

[KM]

do you know how to run programs?

all you do is run WCS and it works, nothing complicated about it - run it, it loads the config file from the same directory, and users start joining

[J a M e S]

i opened WCS from ur website (linux version) 

sais it loaded config, but ovbiusly it didnt cuxz it still trying to use port 65535 (and no name)

is linux config diffrent to windows config.. i tryed transfering my
 config.ini file from there... dussnt read it..

and i decided i wanna keep linux lol..

can i install wine by any chance, if so.. where can i get it from~

[J a M e S]

okie.. i got a room open on WCS!

how do i manage to get in the room (i.e install winmx?)

and my bot ect... and maybe if poss get fxs runnin?

[KM]

for winmx you need an old wine version (below 0.9.16) not the latest one, it runs fine on those versions - newer ones it just crashes though

[J a M e S]

i have : wine-0.9.30.tar.bz2

but.. i cannot seem to install it..

really need some help with this..
is there a wine for my linux version.. if so could you post me a link to download it please

[J a M e S]

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/xandros-help/62863-wine.html

looking on google and found this link

i followed its advice and downloaded wine-0.9.15-SuSELinux100.i586.rpm

at this point i thought all my searching had ended and everything was going to be ok.. as it downloded, i opened it.. and it said it was installing something.. w00p!

but i record ir giving me a few missing files and just sed it created a .deb file or something..

i still cant open a exe... and i cant find no links to what it inssstalled...

linux is really good, and i like it but i feel imma end up installing windows

[J a M e S]

ok, thanks for the help km..

reverting back to windows..

see ya'l soon

[nylly444]

James, it seems there are no precompiled Wine versions for Xandros available.

That's one of the disadvantages of using smaller distributions I guess...

Anyway, in short: files with .rpm extension are precompiled packages for RedHat based distros, .deb packages are for debian based distributions.

I think it would be best to compile your own version form the source code if you want to keep using Xandros.
That's what I suspect you had with the  wine-0.9.30.tar.bz2

That's a compressed file you need to extract first.
There should be building instructions in there, i.e. a readme file.
There is an installation script that will do pretty much everything automatic but I won't tell you more now since you already reinstalled windows

I do have the source code for wine 0.9.16 which works perfectly well on my debian linux, so if you want to try again at some point you can get that from me.
Compiling it yourself isn't that hard if you have the necessary libraries etc installed - which really can be the bigger problem when not using a package manager which will automatically install all dependencies of a package

Maybe you should think about using another, more popular distribution though where packages are easily available

[J a M e S]

hey... thanks for your reply..

i instaled win2k after realising exactly what you just said...

win2k is alot easyer on my system it seems..

loads as fast as my 2.93 Ghz P4 with 768 mb ram

System Information for «COMPUTER»: Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (Build 2195)
CPU: x86 Family 6 Model 8 Stepping 3 GenuineIntel  663 MHz, RAM: 255MB
Harddisks: [C:\> Total size: 9GB, Used: 2GB Free: 7GB (76%) , NTFS]   

Dont get me wrong.. linux is good and i will play about more when i have time.. its just complicated.. lol

[J a M e S]

Update: (For all who care..)
the server i got is doing really well btw.

Linux didnt really suit me and seeing the diffrence from Linux to win2k, linux really lagged my comp..
its been up 6 days on win2k, running 2 rooms, winmx, website (even though i aint set it up properly) metis torrents and w/e else i run my load is 45-60% and it isnt even running slow.. amazing.. i can verify win2k is prolly the most stable release of Microsoft OS's Yet

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