[Wine]Can't install Dreamweaver MX

[Holly Bostick]

Angela Burrell wrote:

>Hi there, I'm resending this message in the hopes that someone out there can
>help me!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Angela Burrell [mailto:angela at jobsearchnetwork.ca]
>Sent: June 30, 2004 2:04 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: Can't install Dreamweaver MX
>
>
>Hello list,
>
>I have been working on this for weeks and can't seem to get it to work.
>I first installed Wine 20040505 from a Mandrake RPM but that gave me many
>problems. (I had to manually copy registry files and DLLs from a Windows 98
>PC.)
>
>I uninstalled that RPM and reinstalled from source (tar.gz) hoping it would
>solve this particular problem, but it hasnt. I will show in detail what is
>happening.
>
>I have Mandrake 9.2 (2.4.22 kernel) and Wine 20040408.
>
>So I try to install Dreamweaver, I put in my Macromedia CD. I start shell
>(konsole) as user. cd to the directory '/mnt/cdrom/Dreamweaver MX' and type
>"wine Dreamweaver\ MX\ Installer.exe"
>
>The install dies shortly after starting. The graphical installer does:
>
>"Please wait while the InstallShield wizard extracts the files needed to
>install Dreamweaver on your computer. This may take a few moments."
>(progress bar goes to 100%).
>(new wine window pops up)
>
>"Dreamweaver Setup is preparing the InstallShield wizard, which will guide
>you through the rest of the setup process. Please wait."
>(immediately:)
>
>"An installation support file 'C:\Program Files\Common
>Files\InstallShield\engine\6\intel32\corecomp.ini' could not be installed.
>(0x80070002)" [OK]
>
>When you click OK, wine quits. I checked, and the file exists.
>
>And my konsole output is:
>fixme:seh:check_resource_write Broken app is writing to the resource data,
>enabling work-around
>fixme:ntdll:FILE_GetNtStatus Converting errno 116 to STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>fixme:file:SetFileAttributesW Couldn't set file attributes for existing file
>"/home/angela/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Program Files/Common
>Files/InstallShield/Engine/6/Intel 32/corecomp.ini".
>Check permissions or set VFAT "quiet" mount flag
>wine: Unhandled exception (thread 000f), starting debugger...
>
>(The "Couldn't set file attributes" error happened on the DCOM install too,
>it just seems to be a warning message.)
>How to fix this?
>
>Thanks.
>
>  
>

InstallShield doesn't really work under pure Wine (that's the main 
reason one pays for WineX or Crossover Office, as they have paid for a 
license to work with InstallShield installers).

However, this does not mean all is lost... I have no InstallShield 
problems under Wine, because I backed up C:\Program Files\Common 
Files\InstallShield on my Win98 install before I blew it away. If you 
use Win2K or WinXP, the InstallShield files are in something like 
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\InstallShield. I 
also have the \dcom98 folder that was contained in C:\Windows\System, so 
I've never had to install that either.

If you have a license for the same version of Windows that you are 
emulating (I emulate Win98, but other versions are naturally possible), 
and it is still installed, or you can copy the files from another 
machine, then copying the support files from a Windows-installed 
InstallShield to the analagous location in your "fake_windows" directory 
should get you past the InstallShield errors at least. Getting 
Dreamweaver to work after that is up to you ;-).

Hope this helps.

Holly