[Wine] Installing Wine and configuration.

PaleRider wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sun Nov 22 18:03:07 CST 2009


I'm running on a newly-built Fedora 12 system (downloaded the ISO, burned it, and installed it, wiping the machine in the process).

I installed Wine via "yum install wine" and then tried installing EverQuest 2.

Attempts were made in accordance with various suggestions from this website and forum and that for EQ2:  A) downloading the trial version; B) downloading the EQ2 installer;  C) connecting my old drive and copying the EQ2 folder, then running "wine ./EQ2.exe"; D) going back to the old drive and firing Wine directly from there.

In all cases, horrible failure.

Along the way I'd configured wine (via the GUI winecfg) to produce a 1024x768 window.  I also attempted to set the audio, but it generated a re-entrant failure (clicking on Close popped a level N+1 repeat of the window; I used "kill" to blow away 30 or so winedbg processes).

Just for masochistic pleasure, I tried installing Civ 4 by stuffing in the disk, starting up a terminal, CDing to the disk and typing "wine ./Setup.exe".  As with trying with EQ2.exe, abject failure with messages such as:

fixme:actctx:parse_depend_manifests Could not find dependent assembly "Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" (6.0.0.0)

and 

Trying to load PE image for unsupported architecture (IA-64)
wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\InstallShield\\Professional\\RunTime\\11\\00\\Intel32\\ISBEW64.exe"
: Bad EXE format for   (the message was cut off at this point)

My conclusion was that I'd screwed up installing Wine.  I uninstalled Wine by using "yum remove wine", and then manually deleting the .wine subdirectory in my home directory.

I reinstalled Wine via "yum install wine*".  Note the addition of the asterisk.  In the process, it told me that it still had Wine installed, which confused me somewhat; evidently "remove" doesn't.

I was trying to get 1.0.1, the one you list as "last stable", I actually installed 1.1.32.  I couldn't find a way to get 1.0.1 instead, so I went with what I got.

With it in, I went back into winecfg and started configuring.  I set up "No, don't let Windows decorate" and a 1024x768 window.  I set up a new directory (D: as /wine/D/).  I looked at Drivers (nothing) and then clicked on the Audio tab.  This is the message that popped up, same as from my earlier attempt at installation / configuration:

--------------------
There is no audio driver currently specified in the registry.

A recommended driver has been selected for you.
You can use this driver or select another driver if available.

You must click Apply for the selection to take effect.

<OK>
--------------------

When I click <OK>, the following re-entrant window pops up:

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The program winecfg.exe has encountered a serious
problem and needs to close.  We are sorry for the
inconvenience.

<Assorted boilerplate>

<Close>
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Each click of <Close> brings up another instance of winedbg.


The question is, what have I done wrong?

According to everybody else around here, it should be nearly idiot-proof.  I must be a special sort of idiot because I've gone through as much of the FAQ as I thought applied to what I'm doing, and so far it's been of no help.

Ken Andrews







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