[Bug 19074] Error message "Module not found" should be more obvious

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Fri Jun 26 10:58:57 CDT 2009


http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19074





--- Comment #8 from Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com>  2009-06-26 10:58:57 ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > Windows error message unfortunately appears just as unhelpful (not telling you
> > "wrong directory")
> 
> This "wrong directory" thing is completely misleading. Try for instance
> run 'foobar' from an xterm, you will get "command not found".

And if you're running on Ubuntu/OpenSuse/others with 'command-not-found'
installed (it is by default), most missing packages will give you helpful
advice:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/command-not-found

e.g.,:
$ evolution
The program ‘evolution’ can be found in the following package:
* evolution [ path: /usr/bin/evolution, repository: zypp (OSS_11.1_Factory) ]
Try: sudo zypper install evolution
bash: evolution: command not found 

> Why Wine error message should look differently?

Wine is inherently a different program than most. It's not a pure native unix
program, and doesn't behave like one for many other things. A simple message
like 'the specified program was not found in the current directory or system
path', as Scott suggested, gives the user an idea of what's wrong, before
filing invalid bugs about it (we've seen a few here before, and the forums get
it quite a bit).

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