[Wine] Need help with a windows app

Doug dmcgarrett at optonline.net
Tue Apr 3 17:43:18 CDT 2012


On 04/03/2012 04:53 PM, James McKenzie wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Sanocon<wineforum-user at winehq.org>  wrote:
>> John Drescher wrote:
>>>> so how do i install the source code? (and i somewhat though it was more than just merging files,)
>>>>
>>> I recommend you lookup how to get updated packages from your distro
>>> before trying to compile wine from source. However here are the build
>>> instructions:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#compile_wine
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> well whats odd is the distro i have Ubuntu only gives 1.3. so what do i need to do to fix this?
>>
> Which version of Ubuntu are you using?  Some of the PPAs are reporting
> Wine 1.3 but are installing Wine 1.4.  Can you run the following
> command from terminal:
>
> [code]
> wine -version
> [/code]
> and report what is returned?
>
> James
>
>
ran that in PCLOS, just to check.  Here's what it produces:

[doug at Linux1 ~]$ wine -version
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\-version.exe"

--doug



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