[Wine] Loading iTunes

[Austin English]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Scunnered<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I am informed that it is possible to load iTunes in Wine using Ubuntu 9.04 but am experiencing problems.
>
> In Ubuntu I downloaded the Wine package via Synaptic which duly displayed in my applications menu.  Having achieved that I then loaded iTunes the version for XP and Vista.  When I attempt to open the iTunes it is then that I hit problems.

You probably have 1.0.1 which won't work, upgrade.

> The iTunes .exe file is now on my desktop.  On opening the C drive in Wine there are two folders none of which seem to meet my needs so I copied the iTunes over to it.  Attempting to open this ended up with an error message:
>
> "[/home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe]
>  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
>  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
>  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
>  the last disk(s) of this archive.
> zipinfo:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe or
>          /home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe.ZIP, period."

It's opening as a zipfile... Use 'wine iTunesSetup.exe' instead.

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-Austin