wine users - Apr 2009 - Hi, complete ubuntu 8.10 novice needs help with wine

hi i've been trying to get an old game (Dune 2) which i used to play through
DOS to work on Linux systems, i've not used this before and am in need of an
'idiot's guide to Linux'
i've gotten as far as having unpacked the file and installed it on terminal,
it now to the point of running the Setup.exe
however when i try to run the setup, i get the following command line error;


[/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE]
  End-of-central-directory signature not found.  Either this file is not
  a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive.  In the
  latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
  the last disk(s) of this archive.
zipinfo:  cannot find zipfile directory in one of
/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE or
          /home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.zip, and cannot find
/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.ZIP, period.


Anyone able to help with this?

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Leanbod <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> hi i've been trying to get an old game (Dune 2) which i used to play
through DOS to work on Linux systems, i've not used this before and am in
need of an 'idiot's guide to Linux'
> i've gotten as far as having unpacked the file and installed it on
terminal, it now to the point of running the Setup.exe
> however when i try to run the setup, i get the following command line
error;
>
>
> [/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE]
> ?End-of-central-directory signature not found. ?Either this file is not
> ?a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. ?In the
> ?latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on
> ?the last disk(s) of this archive.
> zipinfo: ?cannot find zipfile directory in one of
/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE or
> ? ? ? ? ?/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.zip, and cannot find
/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.ZIP, period.
>
>
> Anyone able to help with this?
You need to run it with:
$ wine SETUP.EXE

Wine's DOS support isn't perfect though, so if it doesn't work well,
try DosBOX.


-- 
-Austin

austin987 wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Leanbod <wineforum-user at
winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > hi i've been trying to get an old game (Dune 2) which i used to
play through DOS to work on Linux systems, i've not used this before and am
in need of an 'idiot's guide to Linux'
> > i've gotten as far as having unpacked the file and installed it on
terminal, it now to the point of running the Setup.exe
> > however when i try to run the setup, i get the following command line
error;
> > 
> > 
> > [/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE]
> > ??End-of-central-directory signature not found. ??Either this file is
not
> > ??a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. ??In
the
> > ??latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found
on
> > ??the last disk(s) of this archive.
> > zipinfo: ??cannot find zipfile directory in one of
/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE or
> > ?? ?? ?? ?? ??/home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.zip, and
cannot find /home/ross/Documents/Dune/DUNE2/SETUP.EXE.ZIP, period.
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone able to help with this?
> > 
> 
> You need to run it with:
> $ wine SETUP.EXE
> 
> Wine's DOS support isn't perfect though, so if it doesn't work
well, try DosBOX.
> 
> 
> -- 
> -Austin



Hi thanks for that but when i put that in this is the response i got;


err:int:TIMER_TimerProc DOS timer has been stuck for 60 seconds...

seems to just sit there and say that until i close the terminal

Leanbod wrote:
> 
> Daemon wrote:
> > Since it's a DOS game it might need the first 640K to run. 
> > 
> > Put or change to:
> > 
> > vm.mmap_min_addr = 0
> > 
> > in /etc/sysctl.conf
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------
> > http://www.dosbox.com/
> 
> 
> 
> ok thanks for that but is those commands to go into DosBOX or terminal? as
have tried this command in both but not getting any results exept for
'invalid command' sorry but like i say, i am a complete novice at all
this and don't really have much of an understanding of this, yet lol
This is a solution for Wine, obviously. But if you already have DOSBox
installed, why not try running the app in DOSBox before doing that sysctl.conf
change and trying it in Wine?