I am a new Linux and Wine user. I have successfully installed Wine in PCLinuxOS, and it is able to run an old Legacy program from Parsons Technology called Address Book. I then used Wine to install an old version of Davka Writer, a Hebrew word processing program. The program appeared to install correctly, as far as I could tell. The installation required a serial number, which I have. However, when I try to use it, the Davka splash screen appears, then the program shuts down. I have no idea how to debug this situation, so if someone can take me by the hand to try to get it working, I would appreciate it. Thank you, Jan
Ditzian wrote:> I am a new Linux and Wine user. I have successfully installed Wine in PCLinuxOS, and it is able to run an old Legacy program from Parsons Technology called Address Book. > > I then used Wine to install an old version of Davka Writer, a Hebrew word processing program. The program appeared to install correctly, as far as I could tell. The installation required a serial number, which I have. However, when I try to use it, the Davka splash screen appears, then the program shuts down. I have no idea how to debug this situation, so if someone can take me by the hand to try to get it working, I would appreciate it. >What version of Wine? Run it from a terminal and post whatever messages appear. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f3515230c198befe0279d32c448d9c8da63be66f
On Wednesday 24 December 2008 18:14:59 wine-users-request at winehq.org wrote:> Ditzian wrote: > > I am a new Linux and Wine user. ?I have successfully installed Wine in > > PCLinuxOS, and it is able to run an old Legacy program from Parsons > > Technology called Address Book. ? > > > > I then used Wine to install an old version of Davka Writer, a Hebrew word > > processing program. ?The program appeared to install correctly, as far as > > I could tell. ?The installation required a serial number, which I have. > > ?However, when I try to use it, the Davka splash screen appears, then the > > program shuts down. ?I have no idea how to debug this situation, so if > > someone can take me by the hand to try to get it working, I would > > appreciate it. > > What version of Wine? Run it from a terminal and post whatever messages > appear. ? > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f3515230c198befe0279d32c448d9c8da63be66fI do not know about davka, but the "other" Hebrew WP, Dagesh, behaves similarly. Likely due to their keyboard handling. Dagesh runs perfectly using crossover wine so you might try davka with that (they gave free copies of crossover a few weeks ago!)
dimesio, Thank you for the link to the Wiki. There is no way in the world that I would have known how to run Wine from a terminal. I was astounded (and thankful) when the first Windows program I installed just appeared in the PC menu and then ran properly.> > What version of Wine? Run it from a terminal and post whatever messages appear. > http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f3515230c198befe0279d32c448d9c8da63be66fWine version 0.9.58-1 Run from Konsole: [root at Natashahouse drive_c]# wine Davkawriter wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'... Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled. libGL warning: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x4b wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully. wine: could not load L"C:\\windows\\system32\\Davkawriter.exe": Module not found [root at Natashahouse drive_c]# David Baron, What is crossover Wine and where would I get it, or should I simply do a Google? Jan
In response to the latest comment, here is another try. I did not realize that I was not at the target directory. I am not yet able to recognize directories from programs, especially in Konsole. Here is the latest dump, including some of my mistakes in navigation. [jan at Natashahouse ~]$ cd .wine/drive_c [jan at Natashahouse drive_c]$ dir ADBOOK DavkaWriter\ Documents Program\ Files windows [jan at Natashahouse drive_c]$ cd DavkaWriter\ Documents [jan at Natashahouse DavkaWriter Documents]$ dir [jan at Natashahouse DavkaWriter Documents]$ cd .. [jan at Natashahouse drive_c]$ dir ADBOOK DavkaWriter\ Documents Program\ Files windows [jan at Natashahouse drive_c]$ cd Program\ Files [jan at Natashahouse Program Files]$ dir Common\ Files Davka Internet\ Explorer [jan at Natashahouse Program Files]$ cd Davka [jan at Natashahouse Davka]$ dir DavkaWriter [jan at Natashahouse Davka]$ dir DavkaWriter [jan at Natashahouse Davka]$ cd DavkaWriter [jan at Natashahouse DavkaWriter]$ dir Clipart davwrite.hlp _DEISREG.ISR Spelling Undo\ Files davwrite.cnt DeIsL1.isu _ISREG32.DLL Tanach Whatsnew.CNT davwrite.exe DeIsL2.isu readme.txt TIPS.txt WHATSNEW.HLP [jan at Natashahouse DavkaWriter]$ wine davwrite.exe [jan at Natashahouse DavkaWriter]$ When I did the above, the same thing happened as when I ran it from the menu--the Davka Writer splash screen appeared and then the program ended. ***** With respect to Austin's comment about upgrading Wine--I am using PCLinuxOS, whose user group (upon whom I rely heavily) strongly recommends not loading programs outside its Synaptic repos. While I am violating this rule by trying to run this Windows program, I am unwilling to replace a repo version with something else. If I break PCLinuxOS that way, all the king's horses and all the king's men won't even be willing to come to the wall to look at the egg on my face. With respect to running as root, that was my error. I thought I had to do that, so I opened Konsole and did a su. This time I did not do that, and I won't do it in the future. With respect to the old video card--I built this computer about six years ago, and I was cheap even then. I did not use the hottest video card I could find, I used a Sapphire Radeon 9000. Thanks for the pointers. I do not know if this is any help. I did not even realize that there may be an Internet Explorer hidden in Wine. Here I am using Firefox when I could be using Internet Explorer. Jan
2008/12/24 Ditzian <wineforum-user at winehq.org>:> I am a new Linux and Wine user. I have successfully installed Wine in PCLinuxOS, and it is able to run an old Legacy program from Parsons Technology called Address Book. > > I then used Wine to install an old version of Davka Writer, a Hebrew word processing program. The program appeared to install correctly, as far as I could tell. The installation required a serial number, which I have. However, when I try to use it, the Davka splash screen appears, then the program shuts down. I have no idea how to debug this situation, so if someone can take me by the hand to try to get it working, I would appreciate it. > > Thank you, > > Jan >Regarding Davka Writer, you may want to look at Open Office instead. I use it as my word processor, and I mostly deal with Hebrew documents. What features does Davka Writer provide that make it specific to Hebrew? Open Office handles RTL documents fine. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-??-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?
Yesterday I received a message suggesting that Open Office was a reasonable alternative to Davka Writer. Somehow I have managed to lose all trace of that message, and I would like to discuss this. I would appreciate it if the sender of that message would contact me again. Thank you, Jan