I am informed that it is possible to load iTunes in Wine using Ubuntu 9.04 but
am experiencing problems.
In Ubuntu I downloaded the Wine package via Synaptic which duly displayed in my
applications menu. Having achieved that I then loaded iTunes the version for XP
and Vista. When I attempt to open the iTunes it is then that I hit problems.
The iTunes .exe file is now on my desktop. On opening the C drive in Wine there
are two folders none of which seem to meet my needs so I copied the iTunes over
to it. Attempting to open this ended up with an error message:
"[/home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe]
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not
a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the
latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo: cannot find zipfile directory in one of
/home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe or
/home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe.zip, and cannot find
/home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe.ZIP, period."
Obviously I am getting things wrong somewhere. Can you please advise me where I
am going wrong?
Thanking you in anticipation
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Scunnered<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I am informed that it is possible to load iTunes in Wine using Ubuntu 9.04 but am experiencing problems. > > In Ubuntu I downloaded the Wine package via Synaptic which duly displayed in my applications menu. ?Having achieved that I then loaded iTunes the version for XP and Vista. ?When I attempt to open the iTunes it is then that I hit problems.You probably have 1.0.1 which won't work, upgrade.> The iTunes .exe file is now on my desktop. ?On opening the C drive in Wine there are two folders none of which seem to meet my needs so I copied the iTunes over to it. ?Attempting to open this ended up with an error message: > > "[/home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe] > ?End-of-central-directory signature not found. ?Either this file is not > ?a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. ?In the > ?latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on > ?the last disk(s) of this archive. > zipinfo: ?cannot find zipfile directory in one of /home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe or > ? ? ? ? ?/home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe.zip, and cannot find /home/ian/Desktop/iTunesSetup.exe.ZIP, period."It's opening as a zipfile... Use 'wine iTunesSetup.exe' instead. -- -Austin
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