Apps :: getting wine to work???!!!!

I played around with wine some more, and I found that I had problems after all. Solitaire, WinMine, and mIRC6.0 all ran flawlessly, but winefile (wine's file manager replacement) hung when I tried to view any empty directory.

I looked back at previous posts and found one by Grim which said to load x-window-system and then it would work, but I still had the hanging when I viewed an empty directory.

I tried using ldd to find any libraries I might be missing. That seemed like a neat trick, and I thought for sure it would work. I ran this command:

ldd /usr/lib/wine/* | grep -v "not found"

to try to find any libraries I was missing. The only one that showed up was libGL.so.1 (which I looked on debian.org and found was part of the xlibmesa3 package). Installing that package didn't help.

Is there a better way to search for dependencies than ldd? I know that the hanging doesn't happen when I use wine under the knoppix live CD. And when I say it hangs, it hangs the whole system: no <CTL><ALT><DEL>, no <CTL><ALT><ESC>, no <CTL><ALT><BACKPACE>. You need to reset the computer.

ke4nt1, what's your opinion of FreeCiv, out of interest?

i forgot to set tracking, so i didn't see the new posts until today, i will try it when i get home, if it works then i just need to wait till i get broadband (got a winmodem atm) and windows can be dumped forever.

oh and i will try to make a dsl when i get it done.

I have somewhat successfully ran Civilization II under WINE in DSL ..
The sound is scratchy, and the mouse buttons are not real responsive yet.
I think I need to up the priority of this process.. That would help..

I was able to run the NEATO CD label program just fine inder WINE ..

WINE truly wants to work in XF86...

TM, I have played around with freeciv, it's like the old first civilization.
I'm spoiled on Civ II :-)

73
ke4nt

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