[Wine]wine and Real Rhapsody player

[Holly Bostick]

John Bailo schreef:
> 
> Thanks Holly.

You're welcome.

> 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!

Wine wouldn't be much use in helping one *switch* to Linux, then, would
it... if you still had to always have Windows available to install
programs, why would you-- or how could you, more correctly said-- be
considered to have switched (and what would be the point)?

Or do you expect to be condemned to dual-boot forever :-D ? Trust me,
you're not, not by a long shot :) .

Holly

> 
> Holly Bostick wrote:
> 
>> John Bailo schreef:
>>  
>>
>>> I am trying to make Rhapsody (the Real Networks music
>>> service) to run under wine.
>>>
>>> This guy, AmishGeek, says he got it to work:
>>>
>>> http://www.amishgeek.com/info/rhapsody
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> or you might also consider:
>>
>> Crossover Office (a commercial variant of Wine which installs IE and WMP
>> as supported applications). A free trial is available:
>> http://www.codeweavers.com/
>>
>>  
>>
>>> In Suse:
>>>
>>> If I open a terminal and enter:
>>>
>>> jbailo at texeme:~> wine /windows/C/Program\ Files/Rhapsody/rhapsody.exe 
>>> It does a whole bunch of crazy stuff like this:
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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
>> ;) .
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Any advice would be well appreciated as I love Rhapsody but I'm
>>> forced to boot into XP to use it!
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> 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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