[GLLUG] more wine questions =)

[Mike Reed]

> On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 09:11, Mark Tarquini wrote:
>> On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 07:50, Brad Fears wrote:
>> > Did you encounter any errors while installing wine?
>>
>> No errors on install.
>>
>> > What wine version are you using?
>>
>> I installed from the latest rpm from sf.net.
>> "wine-20030508-blablabla.rpm"
>>
>> when i try to type "wine -v" i get that funny error from
>> before:
>>
>> [iametarq at localhost iametarq]$ wine -v
>> wine: chdir to /tmp/.wine-iametarq/server-306-490332 : No such
>> file or directory

Looks like your rpm might not have had the necessary config
options. I've seen this error related to nptl not being enabled.
Check this link:
http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/rpm-list/2003-April/003937.html
Yank the old rpm first, of course.

>>
>> > What happens if you try running wine as root?
>>
>> I receive a similar error:
>>
>> [root at localhost download]# wine
>> wine: chdir to /tmp/.wine-root/server-306-19c053 : No such file
>> or directory
>>
>> >
>> > And it doesn't matter where your executables are located so
>> long as linux has access to the files.
>>
>> and Win2k is ok?  it's on a fat32 partition.

>From what I've seen/heard/read, win2k executables are usually ok,
but avoid using the win2k dll's.

- Mike

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