[funnyperson1]

I am using RH9. I dled the rpm and installed it. Then I couldnt find the .wine folder in my home directory. I randomly typed wine into the terminal and got this:

wine: chdir to /tmp/.wine-aliasgar/server-1607-28f0e : No such file or directory

But then .wine showed up in my home dir. I configged it to match my system . But now when I run wine on an exe it gives me the same error.

[Titan386]

What RPM are you using? Looking here, I don't see an rpm for Red Hat 9.0.

Its important to note that Red Hat 9.0 uses glibc 2.3, and you must use an RPM built for that version.

[funnyperson1]

Alright I understand now. No wonder my rpm had "rh8" in the filename . Thanks for the help. Guess ill just have to wait.

Could I compile from the source and use it?

[SickBoy]

I built Wine from CVS the other night and it works OK except I couldn't get it built with the --enable-opengl switch.

WineX 3.0 final version works pretty nicely.... it has the glibc 2.3.1 fixes in it for the newer distros. You might want to consider joining Transgaming or else try building this from CVS.

[funnyperson1]

Thanks for the help.

I have no money so transgaming isnt an option. But do you know of any good cvs tutorials for noobs? I tried CVS back with MD8 and RH7.3 but couldnt get it to work at all.

[Titan386]

I'm not sure on your question. Are you asking about running or using a CVS server? You'd probably be able to find your answers at http://www.cvshome.org/ .

Or are you asking how to install Wine/WineX from CVS?
You can get wineX like so:

Code:

    $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login
        Hit Enter when prompted for a password
    $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co wine

Then cd into the "wine" directory that should have been created, and run ./tools/wineinstall first as root, configuring, compiling, and installing wine, but skip the user configuration (it will prompt you). Then switch to the user you plan to run WineX as and rerun ./tools/wineinstall, this time skipping the configuring, compiling, and installation (the script should do that for you) and configure the user. This should create a ~/.wine directory for you.

You can also look at www.transgaming.com for more information.

If you want to try regular wine, download and install it using the directions here and in the README file that comes with the tarball.

[funnyperson1]

thanks, the question really is how to install winex or wine via cvs, thanks for the commands. Do I need to install it on my computer, or would cvs come with RH9?

edit:

nvm, thanks for the help, im trying your commands right now. i didnt have to uninstall the old wine first did I?

[Titan386]

Red Hat should have CVS. If you're in doubt, run 'cvs --version'. It should reply with a version number and some information. If you get "cvs: command not found", then you'll need to install the CVS client.

I'd be very suprised if Red Hat did not install CVS by default.

[funnyperson1]

well i just suck i guess, here is the message i get:

*** Warning: X development files not found. Wine will be built without
*** X support, which currently does not work, and would probably not be
*** what you want anyway. You will need to install devel packages of
*** Xlib/Xfree86 at the very least.

i dont have drivers installed for my 8500 except for the ones that came with Redhat, is that the problem?

[Titan386]

Sounds like Red Hat "saving" space by not installing the files you'll need to compile Wine. You'll have to install those packages it mentions, they are probably somewhere on the Red Hat install CDs. If I remember correctly from my Red Hat days, if you insert the CD, it will open a program that shows you all the packages available. Look for the development packages for X.

Drivers shouldn't be a problem, but if you're planning on playing games in Wine, you'll need to have 3D acceleration working. I'm unsure how well ATI's Linux drivers implement that.

[funnyperson1]

and when i tried to compile i got tons of errors, and i checked and RH shipped with 3d ati drivers...confused am I

[Titan386]

You got lots of errors because you need those X devel packages. They contain libraries and source that Wine needs to compile. Try installing them from your Red Hat disks before continueing with Wine.

I honestly know nothing about the ATI drivers included with Red Hat. You can check if your 3D Acceleration is working by going to a console, and typing 'glxgears'. You should get readouts of FPS, if they are in the thousands, it would seem your 3D acceleration is functioning.

[Kendan]

Dependencies suck! /me hugs my Gentoo install

[funnyperson1]

thanks for the help after installing freetype devel (which was a dep on fontconfig) and installing fontconfg devel which was dep of XFree86 devel the configure/make is working, however is it normal to have warnings as it compiles?

[Titan386]

Yes, warnings are OK. They usually mean something in the source code that has the potential of causing trouble, but is not really an error. The only thing you need to worry about is errors, which are serious enough to prevent a compile.

Good luck

[funnyperson1]

argh, after redoing the ./tools/wineinstall for my username i got this error:

Create local config file ~/.wine/config?
(yes/no) yes

Found existing /home/aliasgar/.wine/config, if you continue this file will be
overwritten. Continue running wineinstall?
(yes/no) yes


Searching for an existing Windows installation... found.

Created /home/aliasgar/.wine/config using your existing Windows installation.
You probably want to review the file, though.

Checking for real Windows registry...
Not found, default Wine registry will be installed.

Compiling regapi...
gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-keep-static-consts -gstabs+ -D__int8=char -D__int16=short -D__int32=int "-D__int64=long long" -fPIC -DSTRICT -DNONAMELESSUNION -DNONAMELESSSTRUCT -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o regapi.o regapi.c
ld -r regapi.o -o regapi.tmp.o
strip --strip-unneeded regapi.tmp.o
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="../../unicode:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" ../../tools/winebuild/winebuild -fPIC -L../../dlls -sym regapi.tmp.o -o regapi.spec.c -spec ./regapi.spec
gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-keep-static-consts -gstabs+ -D__int8=char -D__int16=short -D__int32=int "-D__int64=long long" -fPIC -DSTRICT -DNONAMELESSUNION -DNONAMELESSSTRUCT -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/X11R6/include -o regapi.spec.o regapi.spec.c
gcc -shared -Wl,-Bsymbolic regapi.spec.o regapi.o -o regapi.so -L../../library -lwine -lm
rm -f regapi && ln -s ../../wine regapi

Preparing to install default Wine registry entries...
Installing default Wine registry entries...

wine: chdir to /home/aliasgar/.wine/wineserver-localhost.localdomain : No such file or directory
Registry install failed.

why didnt it find my win2k registry?

[Titan386]

Do you have your Win2k partition mounted?

The error you got at the end was the same SickBoy encoutered a few days ago; I believe its caused by running glibc 2.3. The WineX guys apparently fixed the problem in their retail release, I'm not sure if its fixed in CVS or not though. Are you using Wine or WineX right now?

[funnyperson1]

If the cvs scripts you gave me were for winex then im using winex.....i may try the cvs script version of wine just so i can run the windows version of FAH. I guess ill just have to wait .

yes, my win2k partition was mounted. and i believe my 3d drivers are loaded, tuxracer and chromium run like butter.

glxgears:
9288 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1857.600 FPS

[Titan386]

Yes, those commands I mentioned were for WineX. You _may_ have better luck with regular wine, which you can get here:
http://winehq.com/?page=download_source

In regards to your Win2k registry not being detected, I'm not sure what caused that. I have the same problem. However, it has not prevented me from using WineX, so I wouldn't worry about it.

It seems your 3D acceleration is working well, so you've got one less thing to worry about in that department

[funnyperson1]

how do I uninstall winex?