[Wine]Can't install Dreamweaver MX (solved?)

harald meyer sinaen at hotbrev.com
Thu Jul 8 21:16:32 CDT 2004


Thanks! this will help me to, ;) ive waited for this answer myself..
i just hope when i test it will work. 

i hope you all have a nice vacation (as most of us in sweden have right now)

//harald meyer.. 

> 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

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/sinaen
Harald Meyer. :P

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