[Wine] Problem on installing MS VM on wine

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Austin,


> The regression was related to the address bar not displaying more
> than one
> letter of the address, which made it difficult to navigate to new
> sites.
> That was fixed in wine 0.9.43. I just tried a clean install of
> ies4linux in
> wine 0.9.43 and do not see any issues in the toolbars. Please be more
> specific about this error. Also, please try this again after removing
> and
> reinstalling ies4linux to make sure it's not an issue in your setup.
> If it's
> still an issue, you could report it to bugzilla, but remember, wine
> does not
> officially support it. Be sure to point out it is a regression, and
> if
> possible, find the patch that broke it so your bug will be take more
> seriously.


wine updated to version 0.9.43 w/o problem.  Top tools-bar and
address-bar also found on IE6.

Thanks


B.R.
satimis



> 
> On 8/12/07, L. Rahyen <research at science.su> wrote:
> >
> > On Sunday August 12 2007 11:20, Stephen Liu wrote:
> > > Hi L. Rahyen,
> > >
> > >
> > > - snip -
> > >
> > > > > What does it mean?  No MS VM found?
> > > >
> > > >     ies4linux install IE to non-default WINEPREFIX. If you did
> > > > installation of
> > > > msjava exactly as I have suggested without exporting WINEPREFIX
> > > > environment
> > > > variable then it is expected result - IE from non-standard
> WINEPREFIX
> > > > (most
> > > > likely ~/.ies4linux/ie6) will not find msjava installed in
> standard
> > > > WINEPREFIX (that's ~/.wine).
> > > >     See below how to solve this problem.
> > > >
> > > >     Before you continue, please make sure you have latest WINE
> > installed
> > > > - that's
> > > > 0.9.43! You may try with older version too but in case of any
> > > > problems before
> > > > asking for farther help make sure you have latest version. No
> one
> > > > will
> > > > support old WINE versions!
> > >
> > > I was compelled to downgrade to wine 0.9.33.  The story is as
> follow;
> > >
> > > After version 0.9.43 released I upgraded it on Ubuntu repo.
> > > Immediately thereafter I found the top tools-bar of IE
> disappeared.
> > > Then I force-downgrade Wine back to version 0.9.33 and
> reinstalled IE.
> > > Now I get its top tools-bar back.  I'm not alone sufferring this
> > > problem.  Folks on IEs4Linux forum also encountered the same
> problem.
> > > Report of bug has been made to Wine by them.
> >
> >         As fas as I know there was some regressions related to IE
> but they
> > are now
> > fixed. For me IE6 works perfectly fine with current WINE. I can
> open
> > sites,
> > use menus, adressbar, toolbar, mediabar, etc.
> >
> > > I'm prepared to try again upgrading Wine to version 0.9.43 on
> Ubuntu
> > > repo to see what will happen.  Before start any advise or
> precaution?
> > > TIA.
> >
> >         I expect no problems with 0.9.43. What about precautions
> they are
> > very
> > simple:
> >
> >         1) Do not use 0.9.42 (it has some IE-related regressions).
> >         2) You may want to backup your ~/.ies4linux/ie6 directory
> before
> > doing
> > anything with it. You can do that like this:
> >
> > cp -a ~/.ies4linux/ie6{,.backup}
> >
> >         Now you have ~/.ies4linux/ie6.backup with the backup. It is
> very
> > unlikely
> > that you really need this backup (probability to broke something is
> almost
> > zero) so yeah, this is just a traditional precaution and nothing
> more.
> >
> > > Yes, I'll test your script after successfully installing msjava
> from
> > > clean WINEPREFIX to WINEPREFIX with IE and let you know its
> result
> > > afterwards.
> >
> >         Just copy/paste command I gave you and my script will do
> > everything
> > automatically for you; if you encounter any errors in my script
> don't
> > forget
> > to give me full terminal output (as an attachment in case of too
> big
> > size).
> > Thanks!
> >
> > > >     2) You can turn off temporaly all native overrides in order
> to
> > > > install msjava
> > > > within ies4linux's WINEPREFIX (this assumes installation works
> fine
> > > > with
> > > > clean WINE). This is not stricly equivalent of installation
> with
> > > > clean WINE
> > > > so if it doesn't work try first way.
> > >
> > > Noted with tks.
> >
> >         I'm sorry for a somewhat silly question but what does "tks"
> means?
> > Never seen
> > this abbreviation before...
> >
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