[Wine] Re: Irish Revenue software - Installed at last BUT

[Declan Moriarty]

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:27 -0800, Duane Clark wrote:
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > It seems I have this thing installed at last.
> > The decisive manoeuvre was to read the AppDB :-(. Apparently java-1.4.2
> > bombs out under wine, and the solution is to go to java-1.5.0. Presuming
> > you use the download ( o1jxel45.exe ). Run it once, and it bombs badly,
> > making a randomly named directory in windows/temp. So your actions are
> 
> Java 1.4.2, the file j2re-1_4_2_12-windows-i586-p.exe from
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
> installs and runs fine for me under Wine, at least when set to emulate 
> Win98 (which is the way I am running Java). And the Java does actually 
> run correctly. Apparently, from what I have seen elsewhere, 1.5 won't 
> run right, as you are finding.

j2re runs ok for me, except for the javaws.exe file, which bombs out
wine ./java.exe -version behaves
wine ./javaw.exe (Used by ROS) behaves, and installed, where java-1.4.2
failed to.
BTW, the whole package runs well as well - just logging onto the website
is an issue.

:-o?

> I would suggest giving a try to first installing ie6 using ies4linux.
> http://www.tatanka.com.br/
> It will not touch or affect your current Wine installation at all, so it 
> is safe to just give it a try, and should not take all that long.
> 
> The first step is to run the ies4linux script. This will create a 
> separate Wine home and drives, installed under ~/.ies4linux, and will 
> set the default Wine version emulation to win98. Then you would set an 
> environment variable:
> export WINEPREFIX="~/.ies4linux/ie6"
> The WINEPREFIX means that any commands issued after this point will use 
> the .ies4linux stuff.

I will try (spit) IE6. If I get logging on to the web site, I'll have
the whole thing operational. The online is quite separate from the
(working) offline stuff. You get an oiption somewhere to go online, but
that's it. 

> Now run the j2re installer. You should be able to fire up ie6, and test 
> out the Java there.
> 
> Then try installing the Irish Revenue software, and running it. If 
> things work, you can make it easier to execute.
> 
> Notice that ies4linux created the file ~/bin/ie6. This is a plain text 
> script that runs ie6 under the ies4linux installation. You want to 
> create a simple script to run IRS, so it would probably just need two 
> lines, something like:
> export WINEPREFIX="~/.ies4linux/ie6"
> wine "~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program Files/IRS/IRS.EXE"
> 
> 
> 
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