rekuli
2009-Dec-23 03:33 UTC
[Wine] wine 1.0.1 --- Access from "Office XP" and DirectX 9, how?
greetings to all && a few (silly) questions. I hope you can help me out there. I am using Wine 1.0.1 on debian lenny (5.0.3), and it works quite well (better than Cedega, actually, at least on my system), but not in fine details --- please see below. I have installed every package (concerning wine) that I could find on the official DVDs, but some things do not work. 1. I need to install Office XP's Access, since I administer/maintain a DB for some commercial partners. And I do not wish to install a Windows "operating system" just for this single case. How do I get Access XP to work in Wine? whenever I try to install it, Office Setup complains about an "unknown architecture". What do I need to change in the config files? 2. When I try to install DirectX 9.xc, nothing is done. When I set the DirectX registry entry of wine to something below 9.404, something is done, but important components are not installed. How do I get the whole "genuine" DX9 installed? Only manually via unshield/cabextract and the "libraries" tab of Wine? 3. I use Wine for gaming, esp. older games, like System Shock 2 or Project Eden. Everything works as under "genuine" Windows, but no videos are shown. Do I need an MPlayer version for that? Where do I get it from, or is there a method of copying it from an existing w9x/winXP installation? 3b. When I run Wine under GNOME or KDE, some w32 programs work fine. When I run Wine under FVWM (my favourite) or something else, they don't run at all. Why is that so? 3c. Many programs/games (ones that have the same requirements as installed-and-running-well ones) succeed in installing, but SIGSEGV when I'm trying to run them, regardless of the settings and OS versions I try in winecfg's "applications" and "Libraries" tabs. I believe this is closely related with 3b, but worth an extra question nonetheless. How do I get this fixed? Please give me some hints about this --- thanks in advance. Regards, ReKuli
dimesio
2009-Dec-23 04:39 UTC
[Wine] Re: wine 1.0.1 --- Access from "Office XP" and DirectX
Start by upgrading to the latest development release. 1.0.1 is over a year old, and lots of things have been fixed since then. Office XP has a longstanding bug that prevents installation. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5163 There is test report in the AppDB that says it installs fine in 1.1.33, however, that person used a slipstreamed version that does not require a registration key, so it may not work for a regular installation. Both Office 2003 and 2007 install fine in current Wine. Access in general doesn't work very well in Wine. Wine has its own implementation of DirectX9; you shouldn't be installing real DirectX. Some games may need some native DirectX dlls; copy just the ones you need, or use winetricks d3dx9. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks Check the AppDB to see if there are any howtos for the other apps you want to run. For problems with specific apps, post console output.
rekuli
2009-Dec-25 17:35 UTC
[Wine] Re: wine 1.0.1 --- Access from "Office XP" and DirectX
Yes, Gert, that is exactly what I mean. Outside of those two desktop environments with their super-layers and after-handlers atop X11, Wine simply does not do what it ought to do, though it is an X11 application, not a GNOME/GTK or KDE/Qt application. That is what irritates me strongly. I just updated from 1.0.1 to 1.1.33, and nothing changed at all. Not even concerning programs that I couldn't get working at all (in Wine running "beneath" GNOME). Btw., I'm never logged in as root if there's no need to modify something important in the whole system. So that's not the problem, either... :-) regards
dimesio
2009-Dec-26 02:51 UTC
[Wine] Re: wine 1.0.1 --- Access from "Office XP" and DirectX
rekuli wrote:> I just updated from 1.0.1 to 1.1.33, and nothing changed at all. Not even concerning programs that I couldn't get working at all (in Wine running "beneath" GNOME). > regardsFor Access, you might want to try Crossover Linux.