installing an application with wine

ambalex · 2006-08-22 22:34:36

Hi!
I've just installed wine, but cannot get it to work.

To run an application installed on my win* drive, i tried:

wine /path/to/the/executable/file

To install an application:

wine septupeprogram.exe

in both cases, i get:
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/alexc/wine'...
fixme:ole:ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects

the same when I try to use winecfg

and then nothing, and i have to hit ctrl+c to stop the process.

The strange thing, is that I have neither a .wine/ directory in my /home, nor a /etc/wine directory.

any hint?

thanks.

waltm · 2006-08-23 02:37:23

grab winetools from community, use it to setup your ~/.wine directory and try again

test1000 · 2006-08-23 13:03:52

winecfg is the prog that's supposed to setup your .wine dir.. but since you can't even run that.. reinstall wine? newest ver works for me..

scarecrow · 2006-08-23 13:49:32

waltm wrote:

grab winetools from community, use it to setup your ~/.wine directory and try again

Winetools is currently horribly broken... better avoid it.

By running "winecfg" on console (always as plain user- never as root ) you should get something like

wine: creating configuration directory '/home/alexc/.wine'...
fixme:ole:ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects
wine: '/home/alexc/.wine' created successfully.
(Notice the dot- the directory is hidden).
If it doesn't do that, then you may already have that hidden directory present with insufficient permissions.

ambalex · 2006-08-23 15:03:56

I have no .wine directory in my /home, but there is indeed a directory created when i run wincefg, that is:

.wine-SomeNumbersSomeLetters

this is the directory i can see after hitting ctrl+c, because the process kind of freezes in the second line given by scarecrow:

fixme:ole:ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects

that is, the line

wine: '/home/alexc/.wine' created successfully.

simply does not appear.

I also have alredy tried

pacman -Rs wine

and then

pacman -Sy wine

but I have exactly the same issue.

scarecrow · 2006-08-23 16:54:23

That's odd.
I suspect that you do have a /home/alexc/.wine directory, with no permissions at all to it- even viewing.
Can you see it from a root Midnight Commander session (or a root filemanager window)?

ambalex · 2006-08-26 23:57:31

no, there is no .wine/ directory that I can see under root.
removing wine and installing it back just leaves everything the same way.

detto · 2006-08-27 00:44:03

ambalex wrote:

no, there is no .wine/ directory that I can see under root.

You're running wine (archlinux) as root?! :shock: :?:

karsten · 2006-08-27 00:55:39

are you doing from your home directory

ls -al

(to show hidden stuff?)

also, cd to / and then do

ls -al

and report the ownership and permissions on your home directory. then cd into it and report on the permissions and ownership on some of the stuff in there, maybe you don't have proper write permissions set up on it.

ambalex · 2006-08-27 18:24:11

my home dir belongs to my user has read+write+execute permissions for my user (drwx--x--x). I run wine under my user, not under root, I just used root to see if there was any .wine/ directory for which my user possibly hadn't permission to see, and there is not.

alikas · 2006-08-28 17:13:21

For me wine on KDE not opening '.exe' files, then checked, right button click on file, 'Propierties', in 'Premissions' tab 'Is executable'. So need uncheck 'Is executable' checkbox.
Goodbeey!

ambalex · 2006-08-28 18:32:31

the .exe files I tried were also not executable files, and the result of running wine was the same as when I try winecfg, as explained above.
When I try some other command from wine (e.g. winelauncher), I get a GUI that tells me that I have started wine without arguments, but where there is a button for wine configuration. Unfortunately, clicking on that button brings me to the same point.
I do not think it has something to do with permissions...
any hint?
thanks.

alikas · 2006-08-29 03:35:57

For me work for example: 'wine /home/al/kalba/kalba.exe'.
Some programs with wine work inproperly or not work.
Goodbee!

ambalex · 2006-08-29 15:31:30

I understand some .exe programs might not work with wine. Though my problem seems to go deeper, for not even wincfg is working.

whisky · 2006-10-07 11:33:23

actually, it should work with winecfg, you just need to WAIT for few moments, and then you .wine-xxxxxxx will becomes .wine with all setting.

The pb afterward will be, each time you launch your wine, be patient and wait for few minutes before it shows something...

I try to re-install several time my wine (0.99.2-1), and I got always the same result.

(running wine with utorrent and radmin viewer)

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