wine users - Nov 2010 - Winetricks fails to install many programs.

Hi.

I'm trying to make a windows environment to ensure most programs work. So I
installed many things using wine tricks, however these are giving issues, but I
think are important -

directplay dotnet11 dotnet20 dotnet20sp2 dotnet30 dsound gfw msxml3 msxml4
msxml6 vc2005express vc2005expresssp1 vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010
vcrun6 vcrun6sp6 vjrun20 wininet wme9 xact xvid

Lets start with dotnet20... it says I need to install Windows installer 3, so I
downloaded that and ran it, with the following 'Microsoft errors' -

Code:

fixme:clusapi:GetNodeClusterState ((null),0x32f8a0,2128691936) stub!
err:module:import_dll Library crypt32.dll (which is needed by
L"C:\\windows\\system32\\rsaenh.dll") not found
fixme:crypt:CRYPT_LoadProvider Failed to load dll L"rsaenh.dll"
fixme:advapi:DecryptFileA "c:\\temp\\ext30624\\" 00000000
err:module:import_dll Library CRYPT32.dll (which is needed by
L"C:\\temp\\ext30624\\update\\update.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for
L"C:\\temp\\ext30624\\update\\update.exe" failed, status c0000135



I'm not getting this crypt32.dll anywhere.

so your just going to try to install tons of things in Winetricks so that more
programs will run?

that won't work... installing things in Winetricks can break as many things
as it helps.

You really need to make a custom wineprefix per app you want to run, with only
installed in it what makes that app actually work right.

Agreed.  Native DLLs are a workaround that should be used sparingly.
You should use separate wineprefixes for each app to avoid trouble.

All you need to do is 
  export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wineprefixes/appnameX
before installing or running appX.

Tools like vineyard make this easy, or you could use simple
bash aliases like I do.

Ok, so it was a bad idea.

At least I can do installation of very basic tools like vb, .net etc....?

So is there a list of such applications? My object is to make things easy for
the users. Maximum Windows programs should work.

dE_logics wrote:
> Ok, so it was a bad idea.
> 
> At least I can do installation of very basic tools like vb, .net etc....?
> 
No. Always start with a clean wineprefix, and only use winetricks to solve
specific problems with specific apps.

dimesio wrote:
> 
> dE_logics wrote:
> > Ok, so it was a bad idea.
> > 
> > At least I can do installation of very basic tools like vb, .net
etc....?
> > 
> 
> No. Always start with a clean wineprefix, and only use winetricks to solve
specific problems with specific apps.

Ok.