[Wine] Wine 1.2 on Mac Leopard, Civ4 startup error "Failed Initiating Python"

James Mckenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 27 12:43:41 CDT 2010


Michael Collins <mercutio.viz at gmail.com> wrote:
>Sent: Aug 27, 2010 9:35 AM
>To: James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: [Wine] Wine 1.2 on Mac Leopard, Civ4 startup error "Failed Initiating Python"
>
>Comments in line...
>
>On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:23 PM, James McKenzie
><jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Michael Collins wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm hoping that someone has seen this one before. I am trying to get
>>> Civ4 working in Wine 1.2 on my Mac and I get so far as the stage where
>>> it initializes Python and it fails. I've attached the log at the end
>>> of this transmission. It's relatively short as these things go. I can
>>> see at least one error: 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback but
>>> I have no clue as to how to resolve that in this situation.
>>>
>>> Any input would be most welcome.
>>> -MC
>>>
>>
>> Where did you get your version of Wine?
>Sourceforge download
>
>>
>> What happens when you open the terminal program from the Applications ->
>> Utilities folder?
>Do you mean the Mac terminal window or something else? I'm using the
>Mac terminal program to launch wine. I don't see anywhere that I would
>get a Python prompt, especially since Python is embedded in Civ4.
>
Yes that is what I meant.

James McKenzie




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