[Wine] My WINE won't go to work

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Sep 12 12:49:21 CDT 2009


Gulfvet91 wrote:
> I still can't seem to figure out Wine and how it works. I tried again to get Brainfuse Quick Connect working  last night and had the notion that perhaps I need to get Explorer up and running. I've tried everything I know to get that file in Other to run but nothing is happening.
>
> I did get a lengthy error message.
>
> [/home/ken/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/explorer.exe]
> End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
> a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
> latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> the last disk(s) of this archive.
> note: /home/ken/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/explorer.exe may be a plain executable, not an archive
> zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/ken/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/explorer.exe or
> /home/ken/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/explorer.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/ken/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/explorer.exe.ZIP, period.
>
> Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do to fix the problem.
>
>   
Winetricks ie6

If you are not familiar with this program, please read the Wine Wiki
page for winetricks:

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

Thank you.

James McKenzie




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