Hi,
hope you had a merry christmas. I just released the next version of
WineTools with some minor improvements. You can download it at
http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/.
WineTools is an menu driven installer for installing Windows programs
under wine. This software lets you install Windows software for Linux
under WINE:
* DCOM98
* IE6
* Windows Core Fonts
* Windows System Software
* Office & Office Viewer
* Adobe Photoshop 7, Illustrator 9, Acrobat Reader 5.1
* many other programs
It also sets up your .wine directory in the correct way, downloads the
files to install from the web (only the free and shareware ones for sure
and for now only in german), installs Windows fonts and lets you
uninstall and configure your software. And it does much more than
Sidenet, although it uses a part of the configuration for IE6 (thanks
for that!).
WineTools was initially written by Frank Hendriksen and was extended by
me (Joachim von Thadden). It is licensed under the GPL. The actual
version wt208jo work with Wine versions 20040914, 20041019 and 20041201.
You can download Wine from here. Older versions can be downloaded here.
Regards
Joachim
--
"Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system?
Never run a touchy system!!!"
Hi Joachim, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I just wanted to thank you for releasing your wonderful WineTools 2.0.8. I’m sure you have spent a lot of time working on it, and we have to keep that in mind. Excellent work! I’m sure all of us struggle continuously in installing all kind of programs with mixed results. That’s why we should keep sharing our findings no matter what. I did install Winetools in wine-20041201 environment, and it seems to be doing what is expected. WineTools 2.0.8 did detect my wine path and it created the right folders in the right place and, it certainly helped me progress (not completely) in trying to install some of my programs. I copied the config file for running programs too. However, I still had to launch winesetup after installing Winetools and also, in order to deal with an ikernel.exe launching failure during a program installation, there was a need of adding some commands such as: WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32=n” wine dcom98.exe in /root/winetools/sys/ console where dcom98.exe resides, And, WINEDLLOVERRIDES=”ole32, oleaut32, rpcrt4=n” wine program-setup-name.exe in /home/username/tmp/ console where the install program resides. I had to use these steps (command 1 followed by command 2) picked-up from google in order to progress in my installation. No success yet, but I will keep trying. For some unknown reason, the program I tried to install as well as IE itself just sat around half way of the installation and never finished. I don’t know why or what happened. Maybe some one here has some idea. Anyway, the main purpose here is to thank you for your great work and also, to give you some feedback. Best regards, Adam Joachim von Thadden <thadden@web.de> wrote:Hi, hope you had a merry christmas. I just released the next version of WineTools with some minor improvements. You can download it at http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/. WineTools is an menu driven installer for installing Windows programs under wine. This software lets you install Windows software for Linux under WINE: * DCOM98 * IE6 * Windows Core Fonts * Windows System Software * Office & Office Viewer * Adobe Photoshop 7, Illustrator 9, Acrobat Reader 5.1 * many other programs It also sets up your .wine directory in the correct way, downloads the files to install from the web (only the free and shareware ones for sure and for now only in german), installs Windows fonts and lets you uninstall and configure your software. And it does much more than Sidenet, although it uses a part of the configuration for IE6 (thanks for that!). WineTools was initially written by Frank Hendriksen and was extended by me (Joachim von Thadden). It is licensed under the GPL. The actual version wt208jo work with Wine versions 20040914, 20041019 and 20041201. You can download Wine from here. Older versions can be downloaded here. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!" _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.org http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users --------------------------------- Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Personals -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20041229/cb28891c/attachment.html
Am Fr, Dez 31, 2004 at 09:23:43 -0600 schrieb John McKee:> I downloaded winetools a week or two ago. VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!Thanks!> But, I do not know if it is an older version or the one referred to in the > subject of this thread.The right version can be downloaded from http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/> I renamed my existing .wine directory and ran wt. IE install errored off,As the README tells you you have first go through the whole "Base setup". This is very important for everything to work.> I do not recall the specif error. I am afraid the only way to regenerate > that situation would be to delete .wine and start again, including the > lengthy download (dialup connection) of IE. I will do that if that is > helpful.The actual WineTools can save the downloaded files. It asks you for that after installation of IE6. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"
----- Original Message ----- From: Joachim von Thadden [mailto:thadden@web.de] Sent: 1/1/2005 11:32:53 AM To: jmmckee@flinthills.com Cc: wine-users@winehq.org Subject: Re: [Wine]WineTools 2.0.8 released Am Fr, Dez 31, 2004 at 09:23:43 -0600 schrieb John McKee:> I downloaded winetools a week or two ago. VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!Thanks!> But, I do not know if it is an older version or the one referred to in the > subject of this thread.The right version can be downloaded from http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/> I renamed my existing .wine directory and ran wt. IE install errored off,As the README tells you you have first go through the whole "Base setup". This is very important for everything to work.> I do not recall the specif error. I am afraid the only way to regenerate > that situation would be to delete .wine and start again, including the > lengthy download (dialup connection) of IE. I will do that if that is > helpful.The actual WineTools can save the downloaded files. It asks you for that after installation of IE6. Regards Joachim After I posted my message, I saw that the winetools version was in the name of the download itself. Should have looked there first. I downloaded the 2.0.8 version, deleted the .wine directory again, installed winetools, and ran wt. I did base install, including dcom98. When I got to the IE portion, it did dawn on me that I did have IE6 SP1 (English) on CD. Just had to find the thing. After several attempts to install before I found, by trial and error, the right place to start on /mnt/cdrom, IE installed with no aborts during the install itself. Now, notepad and sol work. But, IE won't. I get a large number of errors. I could not recall the syntax needed to redirect properly to a file, so I copied from the terminal session and pasted. I don't have all the lines, but about 385 of them. That file is attached. John McKee -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ie_install_err Type: application/octet-stream Size: 31961 bytes Desc: ie_install_err Url : http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20050101/6f175bee/ie_install_err.obj
Am So, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:57:50 -0600 schrieb John McKee:> I'm still missing something here. I downloaded and installed > WineTools 2.0.9. Then, I went into Base setup and ran the first three > steps, in order (Create fake windows directory, install Trutype fonts, > install dcom). All worked well. Going to the install of IE is where > I have problems. I have a CD from Microsoft with IE6 SP1. When I put > the Cd into the drive, it is automounted by Linux. Using WineTools, > when I select the English version install of IE, WineTools proceeds to > attempt to download IE. So, I select to not use the default. That > leaves me attempting to pick where on the CD mount tree to start. > What is the appropriate place there? I have tried a number of > directories, but always get the error that the install has failed. > Can IE be installed from the CD? If so, what is WineTools looking for > when it fails?Sorry, as I don't know your CD I can not answer that. WineTools executes the file you points it to. It should be something like "ie6setup.exe". But it's better you use the builtin download of the english version. That setup is tested and should work.> Also, Wine reports that /dev/mixer1 does not exist, with err: as > preface. But, the device does exist in /dev. This happens when I ran > any wine command and also when WinwTools starts - even when the first > three stpes have been completed.This is normal as you might only have one mixer in your soundcard. Regards Joachim -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"