Hello, I'm new and have always wanted to try installing Wine on my Mac but every time I've attempted it I've failed. This time, before I give up, I figured I'd ask for help and see if there is anyone that wouldn't mind taking the time to walk me through the steps. If you have Mac OS X 10.6.2, patience, and want to help me out. Please let me know and I'll find some way to contact you so we can do this.
On 4/11/10 11:22 PM, dpwilliams2 wrote:> Hello, I'm new and have always wanted to try installing Wine on my Mac but every time I've attempted it I've failed. This time, before I give up, I figured I'd ask for help and see if there is anyone that wouldn't mind taking the time to walk me through the steps. > > If you have Mac OS X 10.6.2, patience, and want to help me out. Please let me know and I'll find some way to contact you so we can do this.First of all, how are you trying to install Wine? From source? Through MacPorts? Fink? And how does it fail? What gets printed to the Terminal/Console? Chip
> Hello, I'm new and have always wanted to try installing Wine on my > Mac but every time I've attempted it I've failed. This time, before > I give up, I figured I'd ask for help and see if there is anyone > that wouldn't mind taking the time to walk me through the steps.Documentation is not generally written for posterity; it's to be used, critiqued and improved. http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Building Where are you having problems? What method(s) have you attempted to use to install Wine?
I think I've tried just about every different way over the last couple months to a year and I just can't seem to get it to work so maybe if I could Instant Message one of you and you can work me through it? I don't know, I just am not having any luck with this.
On Monday, April 12, 2010, at 03:31PM, "dpwilliams2" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:>I think I've tried just about every different way over the last couple months to a year and I just can't seem to get it to work so maybe if I could Instant Message one of you and you can work me through it?Nobody is going to direct/private/instant message you, nor should they Wine is a community-supported effort. Sending private help to users who either choose not to or cannot answer questions about what they've tried, where they're failing, etc., benefits exactly no one. Asking for private help on a public forum/mailing list is a faux pas. We're trying to help you here, and in doing so, help other folks who may have the same problem you're encountering - whatever it may be. Please read and understand the documentation the community provides: http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Installing http://wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/Building And describe what you've tried. "Everything" is not an acceptable answer. As mentioned previously you should be able to install Wine using a scripted method, like MacPorts. This is not technically supported by the folks on the forums/mailing lists hosted at winehq.org, but you may have luck following step-by-step guides like this (for MacPorts): http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/ If you have issues with MacPorts, you'll need to discuss with them. Using a binary distribution, like Mike Kronenberg's WineBottler will probably get you up and running quickly too, but again, support issues for distributions such as this will need to be taken up with the package maintainer: http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
James McKenzie wrote:> > Of course, doh123 builds WineSkin as well (and he is solely responsible > for its support).Thats true.. if you really don;t want to build Wine, and just use Wine, I can help you with Wineskin. Commonly asked questions and such I add to the FAQ and manual. Its at http://wineskin.doh123.com/ If you want the best working Mac Wine with the best support, I'd suggest buying Crossover though. Its a really nice product and makes things pretty easy. I try to make Wineskin nice, but its still not as good as Crossover for general Wine usage. Building Wine and using it all command line is not for everyone, its why different products exist.
>I'm in the same boat, i'm running the same version of Mac OSX and i can't get it to work for me. >The closest i got to it working is using macports before i upgraded to 10.6, i had it working and installing until it quit because of my version of Xcode. Since then i've updated the OS, Xcode and X11 and tried again following these >http://davidbaumgold.com/tutorials/wine-mac/ >instructions. I get to using wine-devel in macports, i get: > >---> Computing dependencies for wine-devel >Error: Requested variants "+macosx+universal" do not match original selection "+macosx". >This is a MacPorts issue and needs to be brought to their attention. Nothing we can do here about it. James McKenzie
> >i've also tried the .dmg but can't seem to get my head around it >This is a Disk iMaGe file (.dmg). You download it from the supplier. Then you click on the downloaded file and it mounts as a new disk. Look in the disk image file for either a 'drag and drop' annotation or a readme file that will instruct you on how to install the file. For most installable files, you drag them into the Applications folder and then run the application from that folder. Some disk image files include a .pkg file within them and those are installed by double clicking on them to activate the Apple Installer. I prefer the first version as all you have to do to to get rid of the application is click on it and drag it to the Trash. The second requires an uninstaller, and some programs I've looked at had either poor uninstallers or no uninstaller at all. Again: Your milage may vary and use at your own risk. James McKenzie
davek wrote:> > ---> Computing dependencies for wine-devel > Error: Requested variants "+macosx+universal" do not match original selection "+macosx". > Please use the same variants again, perform 'port clean tiff' or specify the force option (-f).in other words tiff is partially built with a different setting, because you tried before. If you do what it tells you to do, as in type 'port clean tiff' it will clean off the tiff install so it can start over.... it tells you what to do right there.