On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 15:37, deedee wrote: > Hi Mike, > > In general, I've not found any "issues" as such between Mandrake Linux > and Wine. I have Wine working on Mandrake 8.1 and 9.1 systems. In both > cases, the applications I use Wine for were installed on a Win98SE > partition before Linux was installed on the box. > > I'm using the default setup with only Wine dlls (builtin) for mswindows. > The applications, of course, use their own (native) dlls. I haven't > booted up mswindows for ages and do everything that I need with those > programs via Wine under Linux. > > I do have a rule of thumb for dealing with all things Linux, however. I > check first to make sure that something really isn't working before I > start scouring How Tos to "fix" it. My experience with Linux is that > it's easy to wrongly conclude something isn't working, and "fixing" > something that isn't broken can lead to big headaches. > > There are two separate issues with Wine: Is your Wine installation okay? > And, what are the particular needs of each application you want to run > under it? > > Wine doesn't run everything. I believe it will run Kazaa. although I > personally haven't tried running Kazaa. > > I'm using an old CodeWeavers Wine (April 2002) on the Mandrake 8.1 > system and, on the Mandrake 9.1 system, I'm using the August 2003 Wine > compiled on Mandrake 9.1 and available on the Winehq Italia site at > http://digilander.libero.it/winehqitalia/ -- both were RPMs and > installed easily. > > CodeWeavers comes with winesetuptk. The Winehq Italia site has a > winesetuptk that you can download. I used that to setup Wine and > produce the original config and folders. Once done, I then modified > anything that didn't work well for me. > > Also, on the Mandrake 9.1 CDs, there's a graphical frontend that I've > found useful for setting up individual mswindows applications. It's > called XWine (not the same as WineX, the Wine for gamers). There's an > updated version at http://darken.tuxfamily.org -- the site's in French, > but click the flag to go to English. > > On your fake_windows directory, everything should be set up just the > same as it would have been using an actual mswindows release. So if the > dll goes in c:/windows/system in mswindows, then it would go in > ~/.wine/fake_windows/windows/system under Wine. > > There's a mailing list for Wine users at > http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > and an active newsgroup that can be read using your browser via Google. > > Sorry for the length of the post. I know that people can find Wine > confusing. > > deedee > > On Sun Sep 7 11:46:11 2003 Michael Lothian wrote: > > I've been through the howto on wiki but I'm still having difficulties > > > > I copyed the required dlls from my XP installation and used the latest > > version of wine from where the artical recommended. > > > > I managed to install Kazaa (some of the fonts were a bit funny) but it > > would just gointo debug mode when I tried to run it > > > > I then tried copying all my dll files over into wine but that had even > > more dire consquences ie kazaa wouldn't even install > > > > So to the people who have wine working: > > > > What dlls did you use. Which folers did you put them in (system or > > system32) and what did you pop into your wine configuration file? > > > > Also is it recomened to use winex from transgaming for games? Or is > > there an alternative? > > > > Thanks > > > > Mike
Excellent explanation. Thank you. Par hazard I've found a tutorial here. http://www.merlinux.org/merfaq/kazaalite2.1_english.html
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