I was mistaken--the postinst script had NOT been run. I executed /opt/win4lin/postinst_rpm.sh and now win4lin version 3 appears to be working as expected. Bob On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 08:49:59PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > I downloaded the installer and ran it. The process died at ~80% > completion. I looked around in /var/win4lin/installer_tmp and found > that Win4Lin-5.2.1b-d.i386.rpm had been placed in that directory. > > I converted that rpm to a .deb with alien and installed it with dpkg. > The installation completed without any error messages (unlike the > win4lin 2 upgrade). The postinstall script appears to have been run. > > The problem is that when I try to run 'win', I get the following error > message: > > touch: creating '/home/nielsen/.merge/win.sh.log': Permission denied > /bin/win: winconfig: command not found > /opt/win4lin/bin/chk_lic_file: /opt/win4lin/charconv: No such file or directory > An error was found in a configuration > file. Default values are being used > instead of the illegal values. Run > winconfig > to correct the configuration file > > It looks like the symlinks from to /opt/win4lin/publicbin weren't created. > > There are symlinks to /opt/win4lin/publicbin/win and > /opt/win4lin/publicbin/dos, but they are dated January 1 (left over > from the older version?) > > It looks like something didn'g get installed correctly, even though > dpkg thinks the installation completed. > > I changed the ownership of ~/.merge from root to the user and the first > message goes away, but the > > /opt/win4lin/bin/chk_lic_file: /opt/win4lin/charconv: No such file or directory > > error still gets generated (there is no /opt/win4lin/charconv). > > Has anyone successfully installed version 3 on a Debian system? What > else do I need to do? > > Bob > _______________________________________________ > Win4Lin-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen IOTA NA-065, USI WA-028S _______________________________________________ Win4Lin-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.netraverse.com/mailman/listinfo/win4lin-users
