Author Topic: need help with linuxNwine (Read 3133 times)

Cerebral · « **on:** July 12, 2006, 08:25:11 pm »

well i dunno were else to put this

but when i tried to install wine for mandriva linux it gave me an "un able to access hdlist file of "update_source", medium ignored" but it still installed
and i cant get winmx to install and run ether

can anybody help me on this?

KM · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2006, 08:49:41 pm »

first thing to check is if wine is actually insalled properly, first get the latest wine version from their website and install it (current latest mandrivia one is http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-0.9.17-mdk.i586.rpm) you should then be able to run the command "wine notepad" and have it open notepad if it installed correctly

once wine is installed, then just get the latest winmxgroup installer run it with wine, and it should be all go..

Cerebral · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2006, 09:26:03 pm »

Ok i got it installed but when i try to run a windows program it shows it loading at the bottom but after a while stops and nothing happens

KM · « **Reply #3 on:** July 13, 2006, 05:34:38 am »

nothing loads no notepad etc? wine is probably not installed correctly (those errors are probably important errors not the normal ignore them type) - did you get the errors on the reinstall attempt?

nylly444 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 13, 2006, 02:04:45 pm »

If you have wine 0.9.17 installed you might wanna try an earlier version (0.9.16 is fine)
I'm having problems with wine 0.9.17 and winmx, probably because they replaced the mozilla activeX with their own version.
I can install winmx on it fine, but I see nothing after the splash screen...

Cerebral · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2006, 05:58:54 pm »

i was thinking of using win4lin or crossover

any thoughts about them are they good?

KM · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2006, 06:16:37 pm »

Quote from: nylly444 on July 13, 2006, 02:04:45 pm

If you have wine 0.9.17 installed you might wanna try an earlier version (0.9.16 is fine)
I'm having problems with wine 0.9.17 and winmx, probably because they replaced the mozilla activeX with their own version.
I can install winmx on it fine, but I see nothing after the splash screen...

if it ain't broke, go fix it?

no idea about win4lin, but crossover i know someone else who uses it, and it seems to be slightly better than wine for some games, but worse than wine for anything else

Cerebral · « **Reply #7 on:** July 13, 2006, 07:02:23 pm »

well i still cant get wine to work i think i will try a eairler version and maybe it will work
nothing of wine works not even the uninstaller or the configeration tool it will load but do nothing

it just might be the type of linux