Dear friends: I am pleased to say that I successfully installed Internet Explorer Sp1 on my Linux (Scientific Linux 4.0, which is based on RHEL 4) using Wintools. After installing IE6, I thought installing WordView (the Word97 word view program) would be a snap. But instead Wintools failed to install it in several attempts. It started, downloaded the file and tried to install it. But at the end it informed me that the installation had failed. I checked the .wine directory just to make sure and, yes, WordView was not installed. I also tried to run it with "wine wordview". It's not installed. I then tried to install MSOffice 97. Again, it tried but failed. I am using the latest, recommended version of Winetools with the wine build of 20041019, the one specifically recommended by the author of Winetools on his site. If IE6 installed, why should I have a problem with WordView? Is there a solution? Thank you so much. Benjamin
Am Mi, Jul 06, 2005 at 07:25:24 -0500 schrieb Benjamin Sher:> After installing IE6, I thought installing WordView (the Word97 > word view program) would be a snap. But instead Wintools failed > to install it in several attempts. It started, downloaded the file and > tried to install it. But at the end it informed me that the installation > had failed. I checked the .wine directory just to make sure and, > yes, WordView was not installed. I also tried to run it with "wine > wordview". It's not installed. > > I then tried to install MSOffice 97. Again, it tried but failed. > > I am using the latest, recommended version of Winetools with the > wine build of 20041019, the one specifically recommended by the > author of Winetools on his site. > > If IE6 installed, why should I have a problem with WordView? Is > there a solution?To figure that out, I need you to send me the winetools.log from your installation and the complete recording of the console output of the *whole* installation with WineTools, starting with creating the fake Windows drive. So you have to repeat your installation for that (but WineTools saves the downloaded files, so it will cost you only 10 minutes). Regards Joachim von Thadden -- "Never touch a running system! Never run a touching system? Never run a touchy system!!!"
Benjamin Sher wrote:> Dear friends: > > I am pleased to say that I successfully installed Internet Explorer > Sp1 on my Linux (Scientific Linux 4.0, which is based on RHEL 4) > using Wintools. > > After installing IE6, I thought installing WordView (the Word97 > word view program) would be a snap. But instead Wintools failed > to install it in several attempts. It started, downloaded the file and > tried to install it. But at the end it informed me that the installation > had failed. I checked the .wine directory just to make sure and, > yes, WordView was not installed. I also tried to run it with "wine > wordview". It's not installed.With a current version of wine, the only problem I had with the WordView97 installer was that it would apparently get stuck "checking the installed files" or some such thing (I forget the exact message). I removed the z: symbolic link in ~/.wine/dosdevices, and the installer ran fine for me.