I hope you can help. I'm a bit of a newbie experimenting with Linux, virtual
machines and (of course) Wine before I decide on how to set up my next computer,
i.e. whether to go Windows or Linux. Wine is a very important part of this, but
I am having a strange problem. I am running OpenSuSE 11.1 with Wine 1.1.19 and
cannot get anything to install. I have tried Micrografx Designer 3.1 (16 bit)
and Micrografx Draw 5 (32 bit) and both are exhibiting the same problem. Both
start the installation programs fine and everything works perfectly until they
need to create a folder. As soon as I get there, I get a message "Unable to
create desired directory" and the whole thing fails. If I manually create
the folder before starting the install, it works fine, copying files to the
'drive', until it needs to create another,and then it stops again with
the same message.
So far I have tried manually setting the permissions (in Linux) to allow
everyone read & write access to the entire .wine folder structure and the
drive_c folder and it has made no difference. I am currently unable to try
uninstalling and reinstalling Wine as the OpenSuSE download server is offline
and Yast work properly without access to it. Yes, I know this is a very
'Windows' solution to fixing probems, but I've got a Windows
background!
I've checked throught the config settings (winecfg) and can't find
anything that looks wrong. One odd thing is Wine Explorer says that the create
directory option is not yet implemented, but I could have sworn it was
available. And just to make things more odd, the PC I've been experimenting
on has been set up in various ways to see what works and what does not
(different partitioning arrangements including making the .wine folder in it own
native NTFS partition) and in one of my previous installations I was able to
install software. Anyone got any ideas? I am sure it is just me doing something
wrong, but I don't know what else to try.
Many thanks
Mark