I'd like to properly install Visual FoxPro to my window-less Wine directory, but after an initial setup screen I get a message: Visual FoxPro Setup ------------------------------- Setup was unable to copy the file E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 8 to your temporary directory. Please make sure that this file exists and rerun setup. Wine has full access to my temp directory (it is in ~/wine/c/temp), and full access to the directory where setup is running from. Anyone have any ideas? -- Paul McNett
Ivan Leo Murray-Smith
2003-Sep-07 17:45 UTC
Visual FoxPro Installer: cannot copy to temp directory
>Anyone have any ideas?Yes, if your wine installation and configuration are good, this is probably a wine bug.
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:17:27 -0700 Paul McNett wrote:> Setup was unable to copy the file E:\Program Files\Microsoft > Visual FoxPro 8 to your temporary directory. Please make sure > that this file exists and rerun setup. > > Wine has full access to my temp directory (it is in > ~/wine/c/temp), and full access to the directory where setup is > running from.On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 00:45:26 +0200 Ivan Leo Murray-Smith wrote:> >Anyone have any ideas? > Yes, if your wine installation and configuration are good, this is > probably a wine bug.I've not installed Visual FoxPro, however, I've gotten that message with other applications. It turned out that the problem wasn't access to the temp directory for wine/mswindows, but access to the temp directory for Linux. If you have a Linux directory like /tmp (not ~/tmp, but /tmp), you should check it for user permissions. Locating the particular subdirectories that wine was using was easy using winecheck. It identified the exact ones that I didn't have permission to use as user. Once I fixed the permissions, I stopped receiving that message. If you've compiled wine from source, run winecheck. It will identify directories you need access to. If you've already run winecheck and you're still getting the message, then Ivan is probably correct that it's a bug. deedee -- Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Join us: E-mail Majordomo@wordstar2.com Add the message to the body subscribe wordstar2