Previously, I had installed wine-20040615 via RPM for RH9, and some applications
began working that had failed in the past.
Yesterday, I downloaded wine-20041019-1rh9winehq.i686.rpm, That, in it self,
was a chore, as the mirror sites in the US did not appear to have this rpm.
Then, I switched to Germany. I don't know why I picked that mirror. At any
rate, once downloaded, I removed wine-20040615 an installed 20041019. That
broke everything. Even solitaire failed to work. Thinking that the rpm might
have been damaged in some way, I downloaded the src from the same mirror and
used wineinatall to build and install. Solitaire now works again. But two
other apps now continue to not function. I uninstalled 20041019 and reinstalled
(via rpm) 20040615. Apps are still broken. I am thinking that either the new
rpm or wineinstall replaced DLLs that I had copied to my fake windows directory.
But, that is a guess. Main reason I upgraded was that one application was
complaining of two failed devicesL /dev/mixer and /dev/mixer1 (no such file or
directory). I think those were the names.
The applications I was trying to run were:
Virtual Rosary, which was working except for OLE as it wants to display images,
and
CS3, a crusty old version of CompuServe. It still had complaints, notable with
OLE, but the sound worked and that despite the errors about /dev/mixer and
/dev/mixer1
My available time to play is pretty much limited to weekends, and this one is
gone. No hurry then for assistance. I would appreciate any suggestions on how
to get the two applications runing again, as well as fixing the complains about
OLE and /dev/mixer issues.
All this does bring up another question: when upgrading, should native DLLs be
stored in a different place from the fake windows directory? Does the install
automatically replace all DLL files there with versions from wine?
Thanks for reading this rather long note. I do appreciate the tremendous amount
of work that has already gone into this project. I regret that I am stumbling
around, trying to understand how to install and configure this system to work
reliably, particularly after I had major pieces working only to trash them after
an upgrade.
Thanks again.
John McKee
