[Wine]Installing Flash MX 2004: dcom98 is ok but can't get InstallShield to continue

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Mon Jan 31 16:18:23 CST 2005


Please use the Debian Wine packages on the winehq apt repository,
they're up to date and it's really hard trying to support the old,
broken ones that are in Debian.  Check the downloads page.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 00:07 +0200, Emre Sevinc wrote:
> 
> Maybe some wise linux & WINE guru will help me to install
> Flash MX 2004 on my system, here's my problem:
> 
> 
> My system is Debian (unstable) and I've installed WINE
> a few hours ago.
> 
> I've visited
> 
>  http://navi.cx/svn/misc/trunk/winekb/NativeDCOM.xml
> 
> and did as written and was able to install DCOM98.EXE successfully.
> 
> Then I went on to install Flash MX 2004 by running:
> 
>  $ wine Flash\ Installer_a.exe
> 
> InstallShield started, telling me that it was getting ready
> to install... however in a second a window came with an error:
> 
>  The InstallShield Engine (iKernel.exe) could not be installed
> 
>  File not found.
> 
> I had to press OK. I even tried to run it this way:
> 
>  $ WINEDLLOVERRIDES=ole32,oleaut32,rpcrt4=n wine Flash\
> Installer_a.exe
> 
> But same error happened and interestingly wine exit:
> 
>   Wine exited with a successful status
> 
> but of course I was not able install Flash MX 2004. By the way, FAQ
> says to check if another instance of wine is running, I checked it
> with
> ps, no other instance was running at that time on my system. So there
> must
> some other source for this error.
> 
> I also visited: http://navi.cx/svn/misc/trunk/winekb/ConfigFile.xml
> to see about that "DLL overrides" but it was about some quartz.dll
> and I couldn't understand what I should do exactly so I didn't touch
> my config file.
> 
> My wine version is:
> 
> Package: wine (0.0.20040914-1)
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/otherosfs/wine
> 
> The default configuration that was generated by winesetuptk (before
> I tried to install Flash MX 2004):
> 
> WINE REGISTRY Version 2
> ;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config
> 
> ;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config
> for a
> ;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with
> ;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.'
> ;;
> ;; MS-DOS drives configuration
> ;;
> ;; Each section has the following format:
> ;; [Drive X]
> ;; "Path"="xxx"       (Unix path for drive root)
> ;; "Type"="xxx"       (supported types are 'floppy', 'hd', 'cdrom' and
> 'network')
> ;; "Label"="xxx"      (drive label, at most 11 characters)
> ;; "Serial"="xxx"     (serial number, 8 characters hexadecimal number)
> ;; "Filesystem"="xxx" (supported types are 'msdos'/'dos'/'fat',
> 'win95'/'vfat', 'unix')
> ;;   This is the FS Wine is supposed to emulate on a certain
> ;;   directory structure.
> ;;   Recommended:
> ;;   - "win95" for ext2fs, VFAT and FAT32
> ;;   - "msdos" for FAT16 (ugly, upgrading to VFAT driver strongly
> recommended)
> ;;   DON'T use "unix" unless you intend to port programs using
> Winelib !
> ;; "Device"="/dev/xx" (only if you want to allow raw device access)
> ;;
> 
> [Drive A]
> "Path" = "/floppy"
> "Type" = "floppy"
> "Label" = "Floppy"
> "Device" = "/dev/fd0"
> 
> [Drive C]
> "Path" = "/home/fz/.wine/fake_windows"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "/home/fz/.wine/fake_windows"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> 
> [Drive D]
> "Path" = "/NTFS"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "/NTFS"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> 
> [Drive E]
> "Path" = "/cdrom"
> "Type" = "cdrom"
> "Label" = "/cdrom"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> "Device" = "/dev/cdrom"
> 
> [Drive X]
> "Path" = "/tmp"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "Tmp Drive"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> 
> [Drive Y]
> "Path" = "%HOME%"
> "Type" = "network"
> "Label" = "Home"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> 
> [Drive Z]
> "Path" = "/"
> "Type" = "hd"
> "Label" = "Root"
> "Filesystem" = "win95"
> 
> [wine]
> "Windows" = "C:\\Windows"
> "System" = "C:\\Windows\\System"
> "Temp" = "X:\\"
> "Path" = "C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System;X:\\;X:\\test;Y:\\"
> "GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
> ; Wine doesn't pass directory symlinks to Windows programs by default.
> ; Enabling this may crash some programs that do recursive lookups of a
> whole
> ; subdir tree in case of a symlink pointing back to itself.
> ;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
> ;"ShowDotFiles" = "1"
> "ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
> 
> # [wineconf]
> 
> [Version]
> ; Windows version to imitate
> (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,win20,win30,win31)
> "Windows" = "win98"
> ; DOS version to imitate
> ;"DOS" = "6.22"
> 
> ; Be careful here, wrong DllOverrides settings have the potential
> ; to pretty much kill your setup.
> 
> [DllOverrides]
> ; some dlls you may want to change
> "oleaut32" = "builtin, native"
> "ole32" = "builtin, native"
> "commdlg" = "builtin, native"
> "comdlg32" = "builtin, native"
> "shell" = "builtin, native"
> "shell32" = "builtin, native"
> "shfolder" = "builtin, native"
> "shlwapi" = "builtin, native"
> "shdocvw" = "builtin, native"
> "advapi32" = "builtin, native"
> "msvcrt" = "native, builtin"
> "mciavi.drv" = "native, builtin"
> "mcianim.drv" = "native, builtin"
> "msi" = "native, builtin"
> ; you can specify applications too
> ; this one will apply for all notepad.exe
> ;"*notepad.exe" = "native, builtin"
> ; this one will apply only for a particular file
> ;"C:\\windows\\regedit.exe" = "native, builtin"
> ; default for all other dlls
> "*" = "builtin, native"
> 
> [x11drv]
> ; Number of colors to allocate from the system palette
> "AllocSystemColors" = "100"
> ; Use a private color map
> "PrivateColorMap" = "N"
> ; Favor correctness over speed in some graphics operations
> "PerfectGraphics" = "N"
> ; Color depth to use on multi-depth screens
> ;;"ScreenDepth" = "16"
> ; Name of X11 display to use
> ;;"Display" = ":0.0"
> ; Allow the window manager to manage created windows
> "Managed" = "Y"
> ; Use a desktop window of 640x480 for Wine
> ;"Desktop" = "640x480"
> ; Use XFree86 DGA extension if present
> ; (make sure /dev/mem is accessible by you !)
> "UseDGA" = "Y"
> ; Use XVidMode extension if present
> "UseXVidMode" = "Y"
> ; Use XRandR extension if present
> "UseXRandR" = "Y"
> ; Use the take focus protocol
> "UseTakeFocus" = "Y"
> ; Enable DirectX mouse grab
> "DXGrab" = "N"
> ; Create the desktop window with a double-buffered visual
> ; (useful to play OpenGL games)
> "DesktopDoubleBuffered" = "Y"
> ; Run in synchronous mode (useful for debugging X11 problems)
> ;;"Synchronous" = "Y"
> ;
> ; Use the Render extension to render client side fonts (default "Y")
> ;;"ClientSideWithRender" = "Y"
> ; Fallback on X core requests to render client side fonts (default
> "Y")
> ;;"ClientSideWithCore" = "Y"
> ; Set both of the previous two to "N" in order to force X11 server
> side fonts
> ;
> ; Anti-alias fonts if using the Render extension (default "Y")
> ;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender" = "Y"
> ; Anti-alias fonts if using core requests fallback (default "Y")
> ;;"ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore" = "Y"
> ;
> 
> [fonts]
> ;Read the Fonts topic in the Wine User Guide before adding aliases
> ;See a couple of examples for russian users below
> "Resolution" = "96"
> "Default" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
> "DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
> "DefaultSerif" = "-adobe-times-"
> "DefaultSansSerif" = "-adobe-helvetica-"
> 
> ;; default TrueType fonts with russian koi8-r encoding
> ;"Default" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> ;"DefaultFixed" = "-monotype-courier new-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> ;"DefaultSerif" = "-monotype-times new
> roman-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> ;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-monotype-arial-*-*-*--*-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
> ;; default cyrillic bitmap X fonts
> ;"Default" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"
> ;"DefaultFixed" = "fixed"
> ;"DefaultSerif" = "-cronyx-times-"
> ;"DefaultSansSerif" = "-cronyx-helvetica-"
> 
> ; the TrueType font dirs you want to make accessible to wine
> 
> [FontDirs]
> ;"dir1" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
> ;"dir2" = "/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
> ;"dir3" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TT"
> ;"dir4" = "/usr/share/fonts/TT"
> 
> [serialports]
> "Com1" = "/dev/ttyS0"
> "Com2" = "/dev/ttyS1"
> "Com3" = "/dev/ttyS2"
> "Com4" = "/dev/modem"
> 
> [parallelports]
> "Lpt1" = "/dev/lp0"
> 
> [ppdev]
> ;; key:  io-base of the emulated port
> ;; value : parport-device{,timeout}
> ;; timeout for auto closing an open device ( not yet implemented)
> ;"378" = "/dev/parport0"
> ;"278" = "/dev/parport1"
> ;"3bc" = "/dev/parport2"
> 
> [spooler]
> "FILE:" = "tmp.ps"
> "LPT1:" = "|lpr"
> "LPT2:" = "|gs -sDEVICE=bj200 -sOutputFile=/tmp/fred -q -"
> "LPT3:" = "/dev/lp3"
> 
> [ports]
> ;"read" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
> ;"write" = "0x779,0x379,0x280-0x2a0"
> 
> [Debug]
> ;"RelayExclude" = "RtlEnterCriticalSection;RtlLeaveCriticalSection"
> ;"RelayInclude" = "user32.CreateWindowA"
> ;"RelayFromExclude" = "user32;x11drv"
> ;"RelayFromInclude" = "sol.exe"
> ;"SnoopExclude" = "RtlEnterCriticalSection;RtlLeaveCriticalSection"
> ;"SpyExclude" = "WM_SIZE;WM_TIMER;"
> 
> [registry]
> ;These are all booleans.  Y/y/T/t/1 are true, N/n/F/f/0 are false.
> ;Defaults are read all, write to Home
> ; Where to find the global registries
> ;"GlobalRegistryDir" = "/etc";
> ; Global registries (stored in /etc)
> "LoadGlobalRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; Home registries (stored in ~user/.wine/)
> "LoadHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; Load Windows registries from the Windows directory
> "LoadWindowsRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; TRY to write all changes to home registries
> "WritetoHomeRegistryFiles" = "Y"
> ; Registry periodic save timeout in seconds
> ; "PeriodicSave" = "600"
> ; Save only modified keys
> "SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys" = "Y"
> 
> [Tweak.Layout]
> ;; supported styles are 'Win31'(default), 'Win95', 'Win98'
> ;; this has *nothing* to do with the windows version Wine returns:
> ;; set the "Windows" value in the [Version] section if you want that.
> "WineLook" = "Win98"
> 
> [Clipboard]
> "ClearAllSelections" = "0"
> "PersistentSelection" = "1"
> 
> ; List of all directories directly contain .AFM files
> 
> [afmdirs]
> "1" = "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts"
> "2" = "/usr/share/a2ps/afm"
> "3" = "/usr/share/enscript"
> "4" = "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
> 
> [WinMM]
> ; Uncomment the "Drivers" line matching your sound setting.
> 
> "Drivers" = "wineoss.drv"      ; default for most common
> configurations
> ;"Drivers" = "winearts.drv"    ; for KDE
> ;"Drivers" = "winealsa.drv"    ; for ALSA users
> ;"Drivers" = "winejack.drv"    ; for Jack sound server
> ;"Drivers" = "winenas.drv"     ; for NAS sound system
> ;"Drivers" = "wineaudioio.drv" ; for Solaris machines
> ;"Drivers" = ""                ; to disable sound
> "WaveMapper" = "msacm.drv"
> "MidiMapper" = "midimap.drv"
> 
> [dsound]
> ;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to mix in new buffers.
> ;"HELmargin" = "5"
> ;; HEL only: Number of waveOut fragments ahead to queue to driver.
> ;"HELqueue" = "5"
> ;; Max number of fragments to prebuffer
> ;"SndQueueMax" = "28"
> ;; Min number of fragments to prebuffer
> ;"SndQueueMin" = "12"
> ;; Forces emulation mode (using wave api)
> ;"HardwareAcceleration" = "Emulation"
> ;; Sets default playback device (0 - number of devices - 1)
> ;"DefaultPlayback" = "0"        ; use first device (/dev/dsp)
> ;"DefaultPlayback" = "1"        ; use second device (/dev/dsp1)
> ;"DefaultPlayback" = "2"        ; use third device (/dev/dsp2)
> ;; Sets default capture device (0 - number of devices - 1)
> ;"DefaultCapture" = "0"         ; use first device (/dev/dsp)
> ;"DefaultCapture" = "1"         ; use second device (/dev/dsp1)
> ;"DefaultCapture" = "2"         ; use third device (/dev/dsp2)
> 
> [Network]
> ;; Use the DNS (Unix) host name always as NetBIOS
> "ComputerName" (boolean, default "Y").
> ;; Set to N if you need a persistent NetBIOS ComputerName that
> possibly differs
> ;; from the Unix host name. You'll need to set ComputerName in
> ;; HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\ComputerName
> \ComputerName, too.
> ;"UseDnsComputerName" = "N"
> 
> #########################################
> # Application dependent sections follow #
> #########################################
> 
> [AppDefaults\\_INS5576._MP\\x11drv]
> ; Lotus Notes R5 installer
> ; I'm quite not sure this will run on some other machine than mine,
> but it
> ; can't hurt
> "Managed" = "N"
> "Desktop" = "N"
> 
> [AppDefaults\\nlnotes.exe\\x11drv]
> "Desktop" = "800x600"
> 
> [AppDefaults\\explorer.exe\\x11drv]
> "Desktop" = "800x600"
> 
> [AppDefaults\\notes.exe\\DllOverrides]
> "msvcrt" = "native"
> "msvcrt40" = "native"
> "crtdll" = "native"
> "imagehlp" = "native"
> "rnaph" = "native"
> 
> [AppDefaults\\nlnotes.exe\\DllOverrides]
> "msvcrt" = "native"
> "msvcrt40" = "native"
> "crtdll" = "native"
> "imagehlp" = "native"
> "rnaph" = "native"
> 
> [AppDefaults\\nhldaemn.exe\\DllOverrides]
> "msvcrt" = "native"
> "msvcrt40" = "native"
> "crtdll" = "native"
> "imagehlp" = "native"
> "rnaph" = "native"
> 
> # [/wineconf]
> 
> 




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