Kazaa lite and mandrake 9

[John Allman]

Rick Romero wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 04:44, John Allman wrote:
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>>Hi - i have a fresh install of mandrake 9 and i cant get kazaa lite to 
>>run under wine. My system is an athlon xp with a vt8233 soundcard (so 
>>mandrake reports) and a riva 128 graphics card.
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>>kazaa lite installs fine with wine but when i go to run it it craps out. 
>>I followed the instructions at 
>>http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747 and ran it with -dll 
>>comctl32,shlwapi,shdocvw=n. I am attempting to run kazaa lite 1.7.2 
>>which i downloaded from here 
>>http://p2p.edskes.com/kazaa_lite_172_english.exe. The version of wine is 
>>wine-20020804-3 (at least that's what mandrake is calling it)
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>>Any suggestions? I'm a complete newbie to wine. I also tried running 
>>kazaa lite 2.00 build 2 but got a "you have removed part of the program" 
>>message (or something to that effect).
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>>I am willing to give anything a shot...
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>Try grabbing a newer version of Wine.  What you have is 20020804-3
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>Which is from Year 2002, Month 08, Day 04, -3 is Mandrake's build
>version, so it's almost 4 months old.
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>The latest 'release' is 20021031, but you can also try building from
>CVS. I've seen recent screenshots of Kazaa light working in Wine, so I
>would assume that the older release is the issue.
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>Try that first. 
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>Rick
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I tried it with 20021007 and still no joy. every version of wine i find 
mentioned at http://appdb.winehq.com/appview.php?appId=747 is earlier 
than either of the versions i have tried. Could it be possible that an 
older version would make it work? Has anybody else seen this behaviour?

thanks

John