[Wine]wine and Real Rhapsody player

[John Bailo]

Thanks Holly. 

I guess the main problem was that I had a kind of psychic block because 
I have not used wine much, and I thought it just runs programs on 
another Windows partition.  I couldn't imagine that you can /install/ 
programs with it! 


Holly Bostick wrote:

>John Bailo schreef:
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>>I am trying to make Rhapsody (the Real Networks music
>>service) to run under wine.
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>>This guy, AmishGeek, says he got it to work:
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>>http://www.amishgeek.com/info/rhapsody
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>>But I don't quite understand all his instructions...and I tried sending him
>>an email but his email box was full.   I don't understand the parts about
>>installing windows media ( my machine is dual boot XP, Suse 9.3 ).   Does he 
>>want me to install it under the XP partition or Suse?
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>SuSE, of course. If you read more carefully, you will see that AmishGuy
>has two computers, one at home (XP) and one at university/work (SuSE),
>so there is no way that the suggestion to install IE and Windows Media
>Player could relate to XP, because there is no XP on the SuSE machine
>(it's not a dual-boot machine).
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>Secondly, you are already attempting to install a Windows program
>(Rhapsody) under Wine, so it surprises me that you would be confused by
>advice to install other programs under Wine first. You've installed
>Rhapsody to SuSE without reference to your XP partition, right? So why
>would your XP partition suddenly be relevant when attempting to install
>these dependencies?
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>Apparently, the functioning of Rhapsody depends on two other programs
>(IE and WMP 7.1). So these programs must be installed by Wine in order
>for your install of Rhapsody to recognize them and function correctly.
>What possible good would it do Wine to install them to the XP partition
>(especially since they're already installed under Windows anyway, so if
>they needed to be there for Wine, they would already be seen by Wine)?
>But Wine does not refer to existing Windows installs by default, and it
>is strongly recommended that Wine not be set to do so. The default and
>preferred Wine configuration is considered to be Windows-less (i.e., a
>real Windows install does not exist on the system), even if that is not
>really the case.
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>The site gives you a link to the Sidenet utility that AmishGuy used to
>install IE and WMP under Wine, did you follow it? (The title "Sidenet
>Wine Configuration" is a link to the site where you can download
>Sidenet.) I've never used Sidenet, but apparently it works for this purpose.
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>You might also consider WineTools, which apparently has a SuSE RPM, so
>it might be easier for you to install than the Sidenet utility:
>http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/winetools.html
>(contains a link to the WineTools site)
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>or you might also consider:
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>Crossover Office (a commercial variant of Wine which installs IE and WMP
>as supported applications). A free trial is available:
>http://www.codeweavers.com/
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>>In Suse:
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>>If I open a terminal and enter:
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>>jbailo at texeme:~> wine /windows/C/Program\ Files/Rhapsody/rhapsody.exe  
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>>It does a whole bunch of crazy stuff like this:
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>It's not 'crazy stuff'. *Rhapsody requires that IE and WMP be installed
>before it will run.* You do not have IE or WMP installed (as far as Wine
>is concerned), so Rhapsody cannot find them, and thus will not run. The
>specifics of the errors are in this case irrelevant, because you have
>not met Rhapsody's minimum system requirements, so of course it's going
>to error out. If it still errors out after you get IE and WMP installed,
>then we'll have something to talk about, in terms of what the errors are
>;) .
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>>Any advice would be well appreciated as I love Rhapsody but I'm forced to boot 
>>into XP to use it!
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>Since pretty thorough instructions have been given on the page you've
>linked to, try following them and see how far you get. Since these are
>'how I got it to work' instructions, if you follow them, you should be
>able to get it working at least as well as AmishGeek did.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Holly
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