Hello all,
The subject line is a little ambitious, although that is my ultimate goal,
to be able to run the National Geographic TOPO! program to look at maps
of Arizona and California on my laptop using only Linux. I don't even
own a copy of Windows, nor do I desire to, so hopefully Wine will be my
friend.
So far it isn't though. I haven't even got as far as trying to run
TOPO!
I set up an intermediate goal of running textpad, and that fails miserably.
I have details on my web page:
http://cholla.mmto.org/computers/linux/wine.html
I am hoping this page will grow into my own cheat sheet about how to
set up and run wine (for myself an others).
In a nutshell I get texpad from the FTP site and then do:
wine c:\stuff\txpeng473.exe
And I see some kind of installer flash for a second, then get a slew
of error messages like:
fixme:msi:MsiGetProductInfoA "{B510A987-487E-4C66-9F4F-D386AC275715}"
"PackageCode" 0x19fcdaa8 0x19fcdb18
fixme:msi:MsiGetProductInfoW L"{B510A987-487E-4C66-9F4F-D386AC275715}"
L"PackageCode" 0x76d44ce0 0x19fcdb18
err:dc:DCE_FreeWindowDCE [0x10026] GetDC() without ReleaseDC()!
fixme:msi:MsiInstallProductW L"C:\\windows\\temp\\_is2b7\\TextPad
4.7.msi" L"SETUPEXEDIR=C:\\stuff"
fixme:msi:MsiEnumRelatedProductsA STUB: ({72456943-9A39-456C-9F18-E15D80053540},
0 0 )
fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION L"AppSearch"
fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION
L"FindRelatedProducts"
fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION
L"ValidateProductID"
fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION
L"IsolateComponents"
fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION L"SetODBCFolders"
fixme:msi:ACTION_PerformAction UNHANDLED MSI ACTION
L"MigrateFeatureStates"
Full details on the web site link -- my gratitude in advance to anyone who can
help me
along with this. I am running fedora core 1, and wine 20041019 from the rpm.
It runs winemine just fine. My thinking is that getting textpad to run would be
simpler than TOPO! so I set that as an intermediate goal, but maybe I should
just
cut to the chase.
Tom
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Tom Trebisky
MMT Observatory
University of Arizona -- Tucson
tom@mmto.org
A follow up on my own last post. Things look better than I thought, despite all the error messages, when I poke around I find that there is a directory (er, I mean folder, uh, I mean directory) called c:\Program Files\TextPad 4 ..... and in it is TextPad.exe and I can run this with wine and get something that does look like TextPad. I shouldn't let all these apparent error messages fool me .... bear with me folks, I am just learning ... Tom
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:22:38 -0700, Tom Trebisky wrote:> Hello all, > > The subject line is a little ambitious, although that is my ultimate goal, > to be able to run the National Geographic TOPO! program to look at maps > of Arizona and California on my laptop using only Linux. I don't even > own a copy of Windows, nor do I desire to, so hopefully Wine will be my > friend.(snipperoo) Strength to your arm! Please give all the beginnerish hints you can think of when you get it to run -- and announce triumph here! I want VA & TN, and prefer both DeLorme and especially Garmin; but I've never yet managed to get any topo map to run on any linux -- and it's the one thing I miss, especially for the tie-ins with my GPS. I tried one of the commercial packages, having heard erroneous scuttlebutt to the effect that it had been done -- and got no effective help from the vendor, let alone Garmin ... -- Beartooth Autodidact, curmudgeonly codger learning linux Remember I know precious little of what I'm talking about!