Problems With Starcraft

[Bernhard Mogens Ege]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Strube <Robert_member at newsranger.com> writes:

> Well heres the story.. I decided to install the newest version of wine (20010326
> I believe) I am running wine on a linux partition, and have configured
> everything according to the various HOWTOS and FAQ's and other pieces of
> Documentation I have read. Starcraft & Starcraft Broodwar installed with no
> incident whatsoever. There is one problem however, when I try and install the
> patch to upgrade to version 1.07 - it gives me a sharing violation error. The
> patch program actually starts up (in a windows environment)- but it says it
> can't gain the proper permisions on Starcraft.exe. I am running this patch
> program as root, and just to be insanely sure that permissions are not an issue,
> I have set them to 777 for my entire emulated C:\ drive. As an aside I must
> mention that the older pre-compiled version of wine that came with my
> distrobution (SuSE 7.1) works perfectly fine. I think it may  be a compilation
> problem, is there a flag that needs to be set to allow the patching of programs?
> I have compiled it multiple times.. as root, as a user, using
> /tools/wineinstall, using make [x], but it always gives me an error when i try
> to patch. I have spent too much time on this but I was hoping someone could
> offer some advice. Thanks very much.

> Rob Strube 

I also have the sharing violation when upgrading and found no wine
solution to it. I rebooted into windows and performed the upgrade
there and then rebooted back into linux again.

Bernhard