Alexander Noack wrote:
> Hi!
>
> How can I install Media Player 7.1 under wine? I don't have a windows
> partition, and I cannot install internet explorer, because the install of
> IE5 crashes either.
>
> regards,
>
I'd be very suprised if it worked at all. MS has this lovely habit of
making their app installers and updaters make changes to the guts of the
OS (ever installed word2000 and noticed that ie has been updated, etc
etc etc??). This makes it hard to install under wine because the
installer is expecting bizarre undocumented files and registry keys,
trying to alter bits of windows that - unsuprisingly - aren't there,
etc. MS does not make well behaved installers that keep the changes to
their own directory and registry subtree.
That said, hey it could happen. You might be able to use cabextract to
get the installer files out of the archive too.
'luck