Did your remove the old version of Win4Lin first before
isntalling the new one?

It looks like the post-install program  (/opt/win4lin/postinst_rpm.sh)
was not run, or did not finish.  The log of the install is in the file
/var/win4lin/log/inst.log

-David

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
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