Greetings from a noob. I am having a little difficulty trying out Wine-20050111 on a fully updated athlon fedora core 2 system and hope other wine users can help. Review of the wine-users.pdf file included in the wine rpm and scanning some of the wine-users mailing list archives have not pointed to any solutions. I am trying to install Turbotax from a Turbtax distribution CD. (The only windows application available.) Winetools (winetools-2.1.0-jo.i386.rpm) was used to setup wine (wine-20050111-1fc2winehq.athlon.rpm). xdialog-2.1.1-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm was also installed to support winetools. Wine apparently installed. Typing wine at a console prompt produces the short, two or three line wine help text. Typing winecfg at a prompt produces a tabbed dialog box showing d: = /dev/cdrom. /dev/cdrom is mounted. Per the wine-users.pdf, care has been taken to see that the fstab parameters for /dev/cdrom include "unhide". However, $ wine d:\Setup $ wine d:Setup $ wine d:\Setup.exe $ wine d:Setup.exe $ wine D:Setup.exe all produce the following response. wine: cannot find 'filename' To further test the wine installation, I copied the Setup.exe file on the cd to my /home/user/ directory. After a brief pause at the command, $ wine Setup.exe , another prompt ($) appears. system.log entries read -- localhost wine: Registering binary handler for windows applications localhost rc: Starting wine succeeded winetools.log reads -- *new* fake windows drive created at dd:mm:yyyyy hh:mm:ss installed-software file is empty. TIA for your helpful ideas and suggestions. /de/cdrom/ /cdrom iso9660 ro, noauto,users,unhide 0 0
Greetings from a noob. I am having a little difficulty trying out Wine-20050111 on a fully updated athlon fedora core 2 system and hope other wine users can help. Review of the wine-users.pdf file included in the wine rpm and scanning some of the wine-users mailing list archives have not pointed to any solutions. I am trying to install Turbotax from a Turbtax distribution CD. (The only windows application available.) Winetools (winetools-2.1.0-jo.i386.rpm) was used to setup wine (wine-20050111-1fc2winehq.athlon.rpm). xdialog-2.1.1-1.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm was also installed to support winetools. Wine apparently installed. Typing wine at a console prompt produces the short, two or three line wine help text. Typing winecfg at a prompt produces a tabbed dialog box showing d: /dev/cdrom. /dev/cdrom is mounted. Per the wine-users.pdf, care has been taken to see that the fstab parameters for /dev/cdrom include "unhide". (/dev/cdrom/ /cdrom iso9660 ro, noauto,users,unhide 0 0) However, $ wine d:\Setup $ wine d:Setup $ wine d:\Setup.exe $ wine d:Setup.exe $ wine D:Setup.exe $ wine Setup.exe all produce the following response. wine: cannot find 'filename' To further test the wine installation, I copied the TurboTax CD Setup.exe file to my /home/user/ directory. After a brief pause at the command, $ wine Setup.exe , another prompt ($) appeared. system.log entries read -- localhost wine: Registering binary handler for windows applications localhost rc: Starting wine succeeded winetools.log reads -- *new* fake windows drive created at dd:mm:yyyyy hh:mm:ss installed-software file is empty. TIA for your helpful ideas and suggestions.
Are you able to get Turbo Tax working? I might try that myself if it runs OK in wine. - Walter On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, David Curry wrote:> Walt Ogburn wrote: > > >Hi David, > > > >I think you want d: to point to the mount point, not the device. For me > >(SuSE 9.2), this means d: = /media/cdrecorder, but for you it might be > >/mnt/cdrom or something else. > > > >You could also try giving Wine the Unix path to the file, like > >wine /media/cdrecorder/SETUP.EXE. > > > >Good luck, > >- Walter > > > > > > > > > Thank you, Walt. Of course it should be the mount point rather than the > device (wiping egg off face :-) )! It is so obvious now that you point > it out. > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >
Walt Ogburn wrote:>Are you able to get Turbo Tax working? I might try that myself if it runs >OK in wine. > >- Walter > > >On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, David Curry wrote: > > >A fellow on another list reported that he was able to run TurboTax on his FC3 system without any difficulties using wine020050111 and winetools (wt210jo). Thus far, on my FC2 system, the TT installation program (setup.exe) installed a desktop icon and some graphics but no executables that I can find. The program had a non-standard exit when I removed the CD per program prompt.
hi all, sorry if this is repost, my 1st email attempt bounced back for unknown reasons. in winetools 2.1.0, there was an option to select non-default program installation. For example, the default QuickTime installation installs German QuickTime, but you can download an English QuickTime and point winetools 2.1.0 to use it instead. in winetools 2.1.1, this function seems to be eliminated: you can no longer choose non-default installation. I would like to install, in particular, English Quicktime on my system. I tried installation German version but for some reasons the IE6 plug-in didn't work. Besides, I don't read German anyway :) Is there a get-around for this? thx,
>Are you able to get Turbo Tax working? I might try that myself if it runs >OK in wine. >BUT; what about that scam^h^h^h^hscheme that TT was using a couple years ago where their copy-protection system was writing to your drive's boot sector? I wouldn't trust it on a system where it wasn't isolated onto a virtual disk image file (like a VMware or Qemu image). I think TaxCut will work. I know TaxAct won't even *install* under later Wine versions (it used to at least install, but couldn't load it's default data file at startup)