[Wine]Need help:

[David Highley]

"Holly Bostick wrote:"
> 
> Gunnar schreef:
> > I run Gentoo and has just installed the latest wine version,
> > 
> > I try to run an application 
> > wine /wine/sol.exe
> > 
> > and I get
> > the following error.
> > 
> > $ wine /wine/sol.exe 
> > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
> > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system" is not 
> > accessible.
> > Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/wine', 
> > starting in the Windows directory.
> > wine: cannot find '/wine/sol.exe'
> > 
> 
> I've got to say that my favorite 'side-benefit' of the most recent Wine
> release has been that when someone comes by and says "I've got the
> latest release," without providing a release date, and also attaches a
> config file, we know without asking further that said user does not in
> fact have the latest release--- because the latest release (20050725)
> does not have a config file.... and if this was an upgrade, you wouldn't
> likely be having that problem.

What is the latest release depends on platform. I'm running 20050524 on
a Fedora core 4 Opteron system. I tried to build from source but
configure would not work. So far there seems to be little support for
getting things to work either from this list or codeweaver. I'm not able
to get Quickbooks Pro to run.

> 
> I also run Gentoo, and so I know that the last release marked stable in
> Portage (which is not the same as "the last release" available from the
> Wine project) is 20050111. Which release had a lot of problems, although
> your actual error indicates a borked install. But since you've installed
> an old (and more-than-normally buggy) version of Wine, you might as well
> just upgrade anyway.
> 
> If you want the *real* last release (20050725), you should do the following:
> 
> 1) make sure that the directory /etc/portage exists. If not,
> 
> as root, type
> 
> mkdir /etc/portage
> 
> then (or if the directory does already exist), also as root
> 
> 2) type
> 
> echo 'app-emulation/wine ~x86' >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
> 
> into a terminal and hit enter. This assumes that you are running an x86
> architecture. If you are running amd64, substitute amd64 for x86 after
> the ~ . Wine is only available for x86 and amd64.
> 
> This will unmask the 'unstable' versions of wine in Portage. You can
> then emerge the real last relase normally.
> 
> I presume this was a new install of Wine, so you have no previous
> installation files necessary to keep (registry and the like). If that is
> the case, just delete the ~/.wine directory, it will be recreated
> (correctly, we hope, but it works fine for me) when you run wine without
> parameters. If you do have registry entries from installed programs,
> just back up the *.reg files in the ~/.wine folder before wiping the
> folder, then put them back after the folder is recreated.
> 
> Then run winecfg to set up your drives, and you should be good to go for
> most purposes, depending on what precisely you want to run.
> 
> As far as I can tell, Wine --or at least Wine as installed by Gentoo--
> does not provide sol.exe (I don't have it either). However, the install
> does provide notepad.exe (run 'wine notepad') and regedit (run 'wine
> regedit'). So try those instead to check your upgraded install.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Holly
> _______________________________________________
> wine-users mailing list
> wine-users at winehq.org
> http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
>