for the Linux experts, WINE problem

[Xiahou]

Have you run 'winecfg' yet? Part of what that program does is create a directory structure inside of a .wine folder that you'll find in your home directory.

Also, use Windows.

[Husar]

Yes, I have, created a drive in my folder, but whenever I select it in the installer and click OK, it says C\Windows again.

[caravel]

Did you download the latest wine or did you install the one from the repos?

Did you install i386 or amd64 distro?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Are you on Wine 1.1.41? There is a regression that prevents installers from running properly: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22066
According to a bug report there should be a new version (1.1.42) out in “two weeks”:

It's a development release, things are often broken. 1.1.42 should be out in
two weeks, so either use 1.1.40, patch 1.1.41 manually, or wait for 1.1.42
(assuming this patch makes it in).

Patch:

Patch sent: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine...ch/086074.html

Which is reported to fix the issue; if you can't wait, can't downgrade but are up to compiling from git...

[Tellos Athenaios]

Did you download the latest wine or did you install the one from the repos?

Did you install i386 or amd64 distro?

Should not be relevant as Wine is i386 exclusively and pulls in ia32libs and so on.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Also, use Windows ReactOS.

http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html

Be pretty interesting to see how that works out if and when it matures a bit.

[Tellos Athenaios]

FWIW: If you hadn't already and you want to have the most current wine; you can add the Wine deb repository to your APT sources (lists). If you have a recent Ubuntu (like 9.10 or newer) it is a simple:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Which will import the archive PGP key and source list. Then you can update your software sources (sudo aptitude update) and your system should know about the latest wine versions available as debian packages.

[Husar]

Thanks Tellos Athenaios, I already added the upgrade path but not via console, did it in the software repositories window, that's how I got 1.1.41 in the first place.
Wouldn't know how to downgrade or apply that fix, just had a look at Linux for about a week and it wasn't a very deep look either, google provided a bit of help and fortunately it's very automatic by now, the console gives me nightmares, I'd need a course to learn how it works ( I know, you type things into it, but I mean how the commands work, yesterday I learned "cd home" doesn't work, has to be "cd /home", my luck that it was "cd" at all ). Sudo, judo, budo, ppa, etc. doesn't tell me anything(yet).

[Tellos Athenaios]

If you need to know how a command works there is usually a help screen for it; or better yet a manual or info page. You can type man <man_page> to access a manual page; and info <info_page> to access an info page (for some programs there is a difference between the two, apparently). Typically <man_page> or <info_page> is the same name as the program you want to read up on; e.g.

man sudo

.

For a start try reading

man builtins

; which details the standard commands the bash shell recognizes without additional programs.
EDIT: If you are really interested a Bash scripting guide such as this: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ should prove useful.

PPA is quite specific to Ubuntu and means Personal Package Archive. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) have this project site called Launchpad (which is similar to SourceForge) and PPA's are essentially the archives of projects hosted on Launchpad. The program add-apt-repository knows how to obtain PGP keys from the Launchpad server and how to resolve the name of a PPA archive to something that can be used by the other software package management tools on the system.

And sudo is a program which is used to temporarily grant you administrative powers which is required if you want to fiddle with system software and system wide configuration settings.

[Husar]

Thanks for the help, Tellos!

Just got the update for Wine and all the installers seem to be working now, even got Steam to work, which feels kinda surreal in Linux.