Trouble setting up wine

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Tue Oct 2 11:21:30 CDT 2001


bentley423 wrote:
> I have followed the Installation Guide on the winehq website, but the "bz"
> files they reference in the guide are not there.  All I could download was
> the "unstripped-latest-version" rpm files, which I did.
> 
> Through following the installation instructions, I copied and renamed the
> files, as well as changed the attributes, but all I come up with when
> running wine -v is "cannot execute binary file".
> 
> When I run ldd /usr/local/bin/wine I get "not a dynamic executable",
> despite the chmod a+x attribute I applied to it.
> 
> Am I running the wrong version (rpm vs binary) of this file?  I can't seem
> to find any others, or any bz files on the site for download.

Perhaps you should try the Codeweavers Preview; it's easier to
install.  Or wait for Red Hat 7.2 or Debian Woody; they both will
come with Wine integrated.
- Dan



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