hello all. i am running ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) with wine (1.0.1). when using the latest winetricks file (VERSION=20100201) to download various runtime libraries to enable my system for Microsoft Word 2007 use, for example by running: ~$ sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 the downloads and subsequent file installs are successful and Word 2007 runs fine. the runtime libraries are downloaded to ~/.winetrickscache what i would like to do is archive the downloaded files located in ~/.winetrickscache, and reinstall these files (sometime in the future) offline, without any reliance on an internet connection. i don't always have an internet connection, and so i would like a way to reinstall these files on subsequent new installs of intrepid without relying on an internet connection. is there a way of running winetricks so that winetricks installs archived runtime files, which can be placed in a user-made ~/.winetrickscache folder? this option would allow me to clean my drive, and then reinstall intrepid, wine and the MS runtime files without the need for an internet connection. any specific help would be greatly appreciated. regards, thed .
Charles Davis
2010-Mar-02 20:44 UTC
[Wine] winetricks - reinstall downloaded runtime libraries
On 3/2/10 1:39 PM, thed wrote:> hello all. > > i am running ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid) with wine (1.0.1).That version is almost 1.5 year old. Most people around here would tell you to upgrade, if you were having problems (which you evidently aren't).> when using the latest winetricks file (VERSION=20100201) to download various runtime libraries to enable my system for Microsoft Word 2007 use, for example by running: > > ~$ sh winetricks msxml3 dotnet20 gdiplus riched20 riched30 vcrun2005sp1 > > the downloads and subsequent file installs are successful and Word 2007 runs fine.Well that's odd. Most people around here will tell you (and the AppDB will agree) that no overrides are necessary to run Office 2007 (or any part thereof). Of course, that's with the latest "development" Wine.> the runtime libraries are downloaded to ~/.winetrickscacheWhy don't you just copy the files from .winetrickscache to some other location? Chip
> Why don't you just copy the files from .winetrickscache to some other location?and then do what exactly? the current winetricks script attempts to download selected runtime libraries for installation when executed - is it possible to run the script, select runtime libraries for installation, but have winetricks use archived libraries (on a user's local disk) for the installation as opposed to retrieving the runtime libraries from on-line? any useful comments would be appreciated. thanks. thed .
following an initial download and install of any runtime libraries through winetricks, archive the contents of the ~/.winetrickscache directory. if you need to reinstall the same runtime file(s), say, after a clean install of ubuntu/wine, create a .winetrickscache directory in your home directory (~/.winetrickscache), place your archived runtime files/directories within this directory, and execute winetricks in a terminal window as before to install the runtime libraries located within ~/.winetrickscache. no internet connection is needed when reinstalling from archived/cached files. i hope this can help. thed .