wine users - Sep 2001 - Flash 5 on Mandrake 8.0

Hey now-

I'm trying to get Flash 5 installed using the default version of Wine 
that came with my Mandrake 8.0 installation. I am using Wine configured 
to use a "fake windows" partition, run in Windows 98 mode, and run 
within an X window. I can get the installer program for Flash 5 to start 
  and being unpacking, but right after the unpacking of the .cab files I 
get an error message to the effect that "Setup failed to launch 
installation engine".

I am a complete newbie to Wine, so I'm a little confused as to how to 
proceed. Any advice would be much appreciated. I tried installing the 
demo version of Dreamweaver 3 that came on my Flash 5 CD (just to see 
what would happen) and it got 95% of the way through the installation, 
hanging on the "Adding Start Up Menu Icons" (or something to that
effect).

Do I need to have a real Windows partition with Flash 5 installed to use 
Wine? Or can I install Flash 5 from Wine itself?

Any help much appreciated,

Steve Lange

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:38:10 GMT, Steve Lange <surfimp@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>Or can I install Flash 5 from Wine itself?
Probably not if it's a recent software : it may use
the latest of InstallShield,  not supported currently by
Wine (as posted many times already)

Gerard

Steve Lange <surfimp@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:<3BA947B9.9040505@yahoo.com>...
> Hey now-
> 
> I'm trying to get Flash 5 installed using the default version of Wine 
I'm using Flash with Corel Photopaint's wine (edit the executable
script) without  big problems and some tricks.
With other Wine flavours it is unusable.
> Do I need to have a real Windows partition with Flash 5 installed to use 
> Wine? Or can I install Flash 5 from Wine itself?
Yes you must install it on an real guintendo and then copy the
program's folder and one dll (ctl3d32?) on the wine installation.

Ferran

Okay, here is an update:

On the Codeweaver's Wine Knowledgebase I found this link:

http://wine.codeweavers.com/fom-meta/cache/332.html

It describes the problem I am having with trying to install Flash 5 
succinctly; specifically: "Setup failed to launch installation engine 
(0xXXXXXXXX)".

I've tried the suggestion mentioned on that page--adding the "--dll 
ole32=n" string, but now I can't even get Wine to start at all. Again,
I
am using Wine with a fake windows partition. I went into the 
System_Files folder, and there is an ole32.dll listed, but I don't know 
if this is a real dll or not--and I was able to find another copy of 
ole32.dll, so I'm wondering if I should overwrite the existing version 
with the one I've downloaded, to see if that might work better somehow.

It's looking like I may have to set up a real Windows partition in order 
to get this working like this guy did:

http://appdb.codeweavers.com/appview.php?appId=23&versionId=79

Oh well...again, any help much appreciated.

Steve Lange



Steve Lange wrote:
> Hey now-
> 
> I'm trying to get Flash 5 installed using the default version of Wine 
> that came with my Mandrake 8.0 installation. I am using Wine configured 
> to use a "fake windows" partition, run in Windows 98 mode, and
run
> within an X window. I can get the installer program for Flash 5 to start 
>  and being unpacking, but right after the unpacking of the .cab files I 
> get an error message to the effect that "Setup failed to launch 
> installation engine".
> 
> I am a complete newbie to Wine, so I'm a little confused as to how to 
> proceed. Any advice would be much appreciated. I tried installing the 
> demo version of Dreamweaver 3 that came on my Flash 5 CD (just to see 
> what would happen) and it got 95% of the way through the installation, 
> hanging on the "Adding Start Up Menu Icons" (or something to that
effect).
> 
> Do I need to have a real Windows partition with Flash 5 installed to use 
> Wine? Or can I install Flash 5 from Wine itself?
> 
> Any help much appreciated,
> 
> Steve Lange
>