[Wine]Installation issue?

David Curry dsccable at comcast.net
Thu Feb 24 23:56:05 CST 2005


Greetings from a noob.

I am having a little difficulty trying out Wine-20050111 on a fully
updated athlon fedora core 2 system and hope other wine users can help.
Review of the wine-users.pdf file included in the wine rpm and scanning
some of the wine-users mailing list archives have not pointed to any
solutions.

I am trying to install Turbotax from a Turbtax distribution CD.  (The
only windows application available.)

Winetools (winetools-2.1.0-jo.i386.rpm) was used to setup wine
(wine-20050111-1fc2winehq.athlon.rpm).
xdialog-2.1.1-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm was also installed to support winetools.

Wine apparently installed.  Typing wine at a console prompt produces the
short, two or three line wine help text.
Typing winecfg at a prompt produces a tabbed dialog box showing d: =
/dev/cdrom.  /dev/cdrom is mounted.  Per the wine-users.pdf, care has
been taken to see that the fstab parameters for /dev/cdrom include 
"unhide".  (/dev/cdrom/  /cdrom   iso9660  ro, noauto,users,unhide  0 0)


However,

$  wine d:\Setup
$  wine d:Setup
$  wine d:\Setup.exe
$  wine d:Setup.exe
$  wine D:Setup.exe
$  wine Setup.exe

all produce the following response.

wine:  cannot find 'filename'

To further test the wine installation, I copied the TurboTax CD 
Setup.exe file to my /home/user/ directory.

After a brief pause at the command,  $  wine Setup.exe , another prompt
($) appeared.

system.log entries read --
localhost wine:  Registering binary handler for windows applications
localhost     rc:  Starting wine  succeeded

winetools.log reads --
*new* fake windows drive created at dd:mm:yyyyy   hh:mm:ss

installed-software file is empty.

TIA for your helpful ideas and suggestions.









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