Re: [SLUG] WINE application installation questions

From: Keith Lelacheur (themercuryman@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 29 2006 - 16:09:40 EST


On 11/29/06, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Keith Lelacheur wrote:
>
> > Good afternoon sluggers,
> >
> > I never have used WINE for much and when I have it has always been in a
> > dual-boot situation where the windows appswere installed in their native
> > environment and then I just ran them under wine when booted into
> linux. I
> > am now running and Ubuntu (Dapper not Edgy) only box and trying to
> install
> > the Microsoft REader program so that I can view the *.lit files in their
> > native format and have the bookmarking capibilities. I have tried to
> run "$
> > wine MSReaderSetupUSA.exe" and I end up with a microsoft looking pop-up
> box
> > with the following text
> >
> > ----------------------
> > The InstallShield Engine (iKernel.exe) could not be installed.
> >
> > IKernel.exe could not be copied to 'c:\Program Files\Common
> > Files\InstallSheild\Engine\6\Intel32'.
> > Make sure that you have the apprpriate privileges to copy files to this
> > folder. (0x20)
> > --------------------------
> > I went into ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common
> > Files/InstallShield/Engine/6/Intel 32
> > and the results of ls -l are:
> > ----------------------
> > total 928
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 lelachk lelachk 77824 2000-10-05 16:55 ctor.dll
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 602244 2000-10-05 09:01 IKernel.exe
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 lelachk lelachk 221184 2000-10-05 16:50 iuser.dll
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 lelachk lelachk 32768 2000-10-05 16:49 objectps.dll
> > ------------------------
>
> It's complaining about the directory c:\Program Files\Common
> Files\InstallSheild\Engine\6\Intel32 , not the files in it. What are the
> permissions on ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Common
> Files/InstallShield/Engine/6/Intel32? (I fope the space in "Intel 32" is
> a
> typo.)
>
> > I thought that since is was a permissions issue I should run "$ sudo
> wine
> > MSReaderSetupUSA.exe" and then I ended up with the following pop-up box:
>
> No, that would look in ~root for drive_c (if that's the default location),
> not ~lelachk. If you'd set wine up so that drive_c is not specific to the
> user, that might work.
>
> --
> -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.no-ip.org:81
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I was able to get passed the permissions issue by changing the ownership of
the files as Levi suggested, but now I am running into the issue of it
looking for IE4 or greater. Since this is a wine installation on a Ubuntu
box with no windows partition, I do not have any instance of IE installed.
Is there any sort of WINE config file to set the default windows HTML
browser. I have firefox for windows installed successfully. I supose I
could install some version of IE if I could find a stand alone version that
would install and run under wine.

Keith

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