I'm trying to install a scientific app called Bruker TopSpin and during the installation process it asks for the name of an administrator user (<mymachine>\Administrator, by default). However, no matter what I try the app keeps on showing the following message: ...Cannot find the user Administrator (or whoever) And thus the installation process cannot succeed. Any idea to workaround this? Thanks
2008/3/18 Antonio L?pez <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> I'm trying to install a scientific app called Bruker TopSpinAccording to http://www.bruker-biospin.com/topspin.html there's a Linux version, fwiw...> and during the installation process it asks for the > name of an administrator user (<mymachine>\Administrator, by default). > However, no matter what I try the app keeps on showing the following message: > > ...Cannot find the user Administrator (or whoever) > > And thus the installation process cannot succeed.No, but perhaps if you run the app with WINEDEBUG=+relay,+text wine fooinstaller.exe > log.txt 2>&1 and then convinced a wine developer to take a look, or better yet gave a wine developer the app so they could try it themselves, maybe we could figure out what's going on. - Dan
Gaah, my fingers accidentally deleted the line> Any idea to workaround this?which renders my reply a little strange. Sorry about that.
> > According to http://www.bruker-biospin.com/topspin.html > there's a Linux version, fwiw... >Certainly, but it is a version specially developed for Red Hat Enterprise and I'm using Ubuntu (and couldn't convert the rpm packages properly in this case).> > No, but perhaps if you run the app with > WINEDEBUG=+relay,+text wine fooinstaller.exe > log.txt 2>&1 > and then convinced a wine developer to take a look, > or better yet gave a wine developer the app so they > could try it themselves, maybe we could figure out what's > going on. >Sorry, but I was expecting an answer like "user accounts are treated in Wine this or that way", so I choose the "short-and-not-very-useful" description of the problem hoping I was just doing the wrong thing and not being related to a Wine bug. Now I will try debugging it following your advice ;-). Thanks a lot
> Don't use Wine what you can get native Linux program. Period.If you are living in the real world you should know though that's the ideal thing, it is not always that easy: for example, take Neverwinter Nights for Linux (incomplete: lacks cinematics and some other issues regarding speed, etc.) and compare it to the Windows version running in Wine (smooth, works like a charm). I know (and I'm now talking about "serious" software) it is a matter of pressing the companies to invest more efforts on Linux version development (this can be done in the meanwhile) but from the point of view of productivity, I cannot just sit down and wait for these things to happen, I need this tool running in Linux in short term and Wine might give users this opportunity. Also I suppose there is an added value for the developers to improve Wine even if there is a fully operational and easy-to-install Linux version.> If you don't know what to do with rpms then you should ask your distroI do know what to do with rpms in Debian-based distros (there is a converter named Alien) but again is not that simple: the tool is splitted in several rpms, scripts, libraries, config files, etc. that makes difficult to perform a consistent conversion, at least for me (not an expert but also not a noob). Maybe the developers couldn't, or didn't want, to generate a single rpm. Again: productivity, productivity, productivity...> change that distro to one that is supported by the program you want to run.Obviously if I will do that I'll end up having almost one distro per program. :-). If I want to deploy a number of Linux boxes I should try to keep them most consistent in terms of distros. Ubuntu/Linux Mint is easy to use for most desktop users and they are already enough confused migrating from Windows to Linux to sum up one more degree of confusion having several distros. I hope this made clear my point of view and circumstances. Regards and thank you for your advice.
File a bug and bugzilla. I doubt anything will be resolved any time soon. If you want to run this program now - use windows or redhat
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:50 AM, vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> File a bug and bugzilla. I doubt anything will be resolved any time soon.Yes, filing a bug is a good idea. Discussion can then move to the bug, and away from wine-users, which should keep Vitamin happy :-)
> Yes, filing a bug is a good idea. Discussion can then move to the > bug, and away from wine-users, which should keep Vitamin happyI've already done it and I hope to be proactive debugging this thing. "Short term" does not necessarily mean "now" ;-) Thanks again
On 18/03/2008, Antonio L?pez <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I'm trying to install a scientific app called Bruker TopSpin and during the installation process it asks for the name of an administrator user (<mymachine>\Administrator, by default). However, no matter what I try the app keeps on showing the following message: > > ...Cannot find the user Administrator (or whoever) > > And thus the installation process cannot succeed. > > Any idea to workaround this? > Thanks >Antionio, don't forget to write to Bruker and ask if they can make you a .deb file. It might take some effort on their part, but probably not much. Make a point that they can make that file available to Ubuntu users, which is currently the #1 Linux distro. Also, their site should specify on what distros the software is designed to run, as I couldn't find that info. It only said Linux. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> (I wonder how to get people to always include links to > bug reports...)Ooops! This wooden head of mine... :-P> Antionio, don't forget to write to Bruker and ask if they can make you a .deb file.Good idea, I will. Sure they will be more receptive to such a request when coming from a customer center.> Also, their site should > specify on what distros the software is designed to run, as I couldn't > find that info. It only said Linux. >No, they clearly specify their Linux version is for RHE (WS3-4) in the link http://www.bruker-biospin.com/topspin.html, section "Standard System Requirements" (see bottom). Cheers