I am trying to make Rhapsody (the Real Networks music
service) to run under wine.
This guy, AmishGeek, says he got it to work:
http://www.amishgeek.com/info/rhapsody
But I don't quite understand all his instructions...and I tried sending him
an email but his email box was full. I don't understand the parts about
installing windows media ( my machine is dual boot XP, Suse 9.3 ). Does he
want me to install it under the XP partition or Suse?
In Suse:
If I open a terminal and enter:
jbailo@texeme:~> wine /windows/C/Program\ Files/Rhapsody/rhapsody.exe
It does a whole bunch of crazy stuff like this:
-839a-00c04fd918d0}, hres is 0x80040154
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID
{4657278a-411b-11d2-839a-00c04fd918d0}, hres is 0x80040154
fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy
fixme:bitblt:X11DRV_BitBlt potential optimization - client-side DIB copy
fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID
{4657278a-411b-11d2-839a-00c04fd918d0}, hres is 0x80040154
Then it throws an alert that says:
"The application is requesting an ActiveX browser object, but the Mozilla
Active X control is currently not installed. Do you wish to download and
install it?"
If I say yes, it says
"An internal error occurred and Rhapsody must shut down. We apologize for
the inconvenience."
Any advice would be well appreciated as I love Rhapsody but I'm forced to
boot
into XP to use it!
John Bailo schreef:> > I am trying to make Rhapsody (the Real Networks music > service) to run under wine. > > This guy, AmishGeek, says he got it to work: > > http://www.amishgeek.com/info/rhapsody > > But I don't quite understand all his instructions...and I tried sending him > an email but his email box was full. I don't understand the parts about > installing windows media ( my machine is dual boot XP, Suse 9.3 ). Does he > want me to install it under the XP partition or Suse?SuSE, of course. If you read more carefully, you will see that AmishGuy has two computers, one at home (XP) and one at university/work (SuSE), so there is no way that the suggestion to install IE and Windows Media Player could relate to XP, because there is no XP on the SuSE machine (it's not a dual-boot machine). Secondly, you are already attempting to install a Windows program (Rhapsody) under Wine, so it surprises me that you would be confused by advice to install other programs under Wine first. You've installed Rhapsody to SuSE without reference to your XP partition, right? So why would your XP partition suddenly be relevant when attempting to install these dependencies? Apparently, the functioning of Rhapsody depends on two other programs (IE and WMP 7.1). So these programs must be installed by Wine in order for your install of Rhapsody to recognize them and function correctly. What possible good would it do Wine to install them to the XP partition (especially since they're already installed under Windows anyway, so if they needed to be there for Wine, they would already be seen by Wine)? But Wine does not refer to existing Windows installs by default, and it is strongly recommended that Wine not be set to do so. The default and preferred Wine configuration is considered to be Windows-less (i.e., a real Windows install does not exist on the system), even if that is not really the case. The site gives you a link to the Sidenet utility that AmishGuy used to install IE and WMP under Wine, did you follow it? (The title "Sidenet Wine Configuration" is a link to the site where you can download Sidenet.) I've never used Sidenet, but apparently it works for this purpose. You might also consider WineTools, which apparently has a SuSE RPM, so it might be easier for you to install than the Sidenet utility: http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/winetools.html (contains a link to the WineTools site) or you might also consider: Crossover Office (a commercial variant of Wine which installs IE and WMP as supported applications). A free trial is available: http://www.codeweavers.com/> > In Suse: > > If I open a terminal and enter: > > jbailo@texeme:~> wine /windows/C/Program\ Files/Rhapsody/rhapsody.exe > > It does a whole bunch of crazy stuff like this:It's not 'crazy stuff'. *Rhapsody requires that IE and WMP be installed before it will run.* You do not have IE or WMP installed (as far as Wine is concerned), so Rhapsody cannot find them, and thus will not run. The specifics of the errors are in this case irrelevant, because you have not met Rhapsody's minimum system requirements, so of course it's going to error out. If it still errors out after you get IE and WMP installed, then we'll have something to talk about, in terms of what the errors are ;) .> > Any advice would be well appreciated as I love Rhapsody but I'm forced to boot > into XP to use it! >Since pretty thorough instructions have been given on the page you've linked to, try following them and see how far you get. Since these are 'how I got it to work' instructions, if you follow them, you should be able to get it working at least as well as AmishGeek did. Hope this helps, Holly
John Bailo schreef:> > Thanks Holly.You're welcome.> I guess the main problem was that I had a kind of psychic block because > I have not used wine much, and I thought it just runs programs on > another Windows partition. I couldn't imagine that you can /install/ > programs with it!Wine wouldn't be much use in helping one *switch* to Linux, then, would it... if you still had to always have Windows available to install programs, why would you-- or how could you, more correctly said-- be considered to have switched (and what would be the point)? Or do you expect to be condemned to dual-boot forever :-D ? Trust me, you're not, not by a long shot :) . Holly> > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> John Bailo schreef: >> >> >>> I am trying to make Rhapsody (the Real Networks music >>> service) to run under wine. >>> >>> This guy, AmishGeek, says he got it to work: >>> >>> http://www.amishgeek.com/info/rhapsody >>> >>> But I don't quite understand all his instructions...and I tried >>> sending him >>> an email but his email box was full. I don't understand the parts >>> about >>> installing windows media ( my machine is dual boot XP, Suse 9.3 ). >>> Does he want me to install it under the XP partition or Suse? >>> >> >> >> SuSE, of course. If you read more carefully, you will see that AmishGuy >> has two computers, one at home (XP) and one at university/work (SuSE), >> so there is no way that the suggestion to install IE and Windows Media >> Player could relate to XP, because there is no XP on the SuSE machine >> (it's not a dual-boot machine). >> >> Secondly, you are already attempting to install a Windows program >> (Rhapsody) under Wine, so it surprises me that you would be confused by >> advice to install other programs under Wine first. You've installed >> Rhapsody to SuSE without reference to your XP partition, right? So why >> would your XP partition suddenly be relevant when attempting to install >> these dependencies? >> >> Apparently, the functioning of Rhapsody depends on two other programs >> (IE and WMP 7.1). So these programs must be installed by Wine in order >> for your install of Rhapsody to recognize them and function correctly. >> What possible good would it do Wine to install them to the XP partition >> (especially since they're already installed under Windows anyway, so if >> they needed to be there for Wine, they would already be seen by Wine)? >> But Wine does not refer to existing Windows installs by default, and it >> is strongly recommended that Wine not be set to do so. The default and >> preferred Wine configuration is considered to be Windows-less (i.e., a >> real Windows install does not exist on the system), even if that is not >> really the case. >> >> The site gives you a link to the Sidenet utility that AmishGuy used to >> install IE and WMP under Wine, did you follow it? (The title "Sidenet >> Wine Configuration" is a link to the site where you can download >> Sidenet.) I've never used Sidenet, but apparently it works for this >> purpose. >> >> You might also consider WineTools, which apparently has a SuSE RPM, so >> it might be easier for you to install than the Sidenet utility: >> http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/winetools.html >> (contains a link to the WineTools site) >> >> or you might also consider: >> >> Crossover Office (a commercial variant of Wine which installs IE and WMP >> as supported applications). A free trial is available: >> http://www.codeweavers.com/ >> >> >> >>> In Suse: >>> >>> If I open a terminal and enter: >>> >>> jbailo@texeme:~> wine /windows/C/Program\ Files/Rhapsody/rhapsody.exe >>> It does a whole bunch of crazy stuff like this: >>> >> >> >> It's not 'crazy stuff'. *Rhapsody requires that IE and WMP be installed >> before it will run.* You do not have IE or WMP installed (as far as Wine >> is concerned), so Rhapsody cannot find them, and thus will not run. The >> specifics of the errors are in this case irrelevant, because you have >> not met Rhapsody's minimum system requirements, so of course it's going >> to error out. If it still errors out after you get IE and WMP installed, >> then we'll have something to talk about, in terms of what the errors are >> ;) . >> >> >> >>> Any advice would be well appreciated as I love Rhapsody but I'm >>> forced to boot into XP to use it! >>> >>> >> >> >> Since pretty thorough instructions have been given on the page you've >> linked to, try following them and see how far you get. Since these are >> 'how I got it to work' instructions, if you follow them, you should be >> able to get it working at least as well as AmishGeek did. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Holly >> _______________________________________________ >> wine-users mailing list >> wine-users@winehq.org >> http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >> >> >> >> >> > >