Welp. I totally hosed my Wine installation. I am brand new to Linux. I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Latitude d630 and I am trying to get Wine working. A Short History: The first time I installed Ubuntu something went wrong and I had to uninstall & reinstall it to get it working. Now when I turn on my PC there are two versions of Ubuntu in the boot menu along with Windows XP Pro... and all three boot so I don't know what the heck is going on. The first time I installed Ubuntu I installed wine and was attempting to configure it but I never got any windows applications running. When Ubuntu updated something broke, and I had to reinstall the OS. After reinstalling Ubuntu I installed Wine via the instructions here: http://www.junauza.com/2010/04/how-to-install-microsoft-office-on.html But during the installation process, I encounter this message: "The program wineboot.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." If I try to do anything Wine-related (including trying to launch Configure Wine) I get the same error. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling many times and through many different means but I just can't seem to get it to install. Is there any way to completely uninstall everything that Wine has ever touched so that I can start over? I would hate to have to reinstall Ubuntu again, and who knows, is there anything on the windows side that could be screwing this up? Thank you so much if anyone wants to take a crack at this.
TheDunedan wrote:> > After reinstalling Ubuntu I installed Wine via the instructions here: > http://www.junauza.com/2010/04/how-to-install-microsoft-office-on.html >http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-05f345e881bfc31ae77e902bd577dccba0ba4112 The howto you followed is an excellent example of why outside howtos aren't supported here. Native rpcrt4.dll, which that howto calls for, will prevent Wine from working at all. As for Office 2003, NO native dlls are needed to install. You didn't say what version of Wine you're using; if it's not the latest development release, upgrade. Then delete ~/.wine and reinstall Office just by running the installer--no winetricks or other tweaks. After installing, set riched20 to native (again, no winetricks; Office installs its own riched20). In the future, follow only the howtos here.
On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 19:27 -0600, TheDunedan wrote:> The first time I installed Ubuntu something went wrong and I had to > uninstall & reinstall it to get it working. Now when I turn on my PC > there are two versions of Ubuntu in the boot menu along with Windows > XP Pro... and all three boot so I don't know what the heck is going > on. >That is expected: like many things, the Linux boot system is more flexible than the Windows one and is fully documented and configurable. Linux boot systems can all be configured to show a menu that lets you select and boot any of the displayed OSes. My distro (Fedora) keeps the last three kernels to be installed in the menu. Its normal to define a default OS, which automatically boots after giving you a few seconds to select a different one. The topmost item in the list is the usual default but this can be overridden. If this is NOT how your boot system is operating, ask how to fix it on the Ubuntu forums. Martin
Just wanted to add a final comment here. Installing the fresh wine prefix worked perfectly. I guess with Ubuntu's file manager ctrl + h will toggle hidden files. Deleting the .wine folder did the trick. It is now up and running, thanks for the help! Also, I will look into the boot menu you referred to. I am brand new to all this, but I think I am starting to like it!