Hi All, Just started to try to get 1 windoz program to run in Ubuntu since I can't find a good alternative. Been running Ubuntu for 3 years but this is above my expertise. Profili is airplane wing profile software that will generate G-code for a CNC router. When I try to get it to run under WIne it gives me this error and quits... "Impossible to open database C:\windows\profiles\superbug\My Documents\Profilipro\Libraries\ProfiliProNoPolar.mdb." The file is present at the location that it calls for but the program must need something else other than a file at that location. I searched the archives and tried the commands winetricks jet40 and winetricks mdac28 in a terminal window before running but still nogo. The archive lists a winetrick mdac25 but that just brings up an error when ran in the terminal. Any ideas? I also have the question...do you have to run the winetrick commands in a terminal every time before running the software or are they installed and good to go now? TIA
superbug20 wrote:> Hi All, > > Just started to try to get 1 windoz program to run in Ubuntu since I can't find a good alternative. Been running Ubuntu for 3 years but this is above my expertise. Profili is airplane wing profile software that will generate G-code for a CNC router. When I try to get it to run under WIne it gives me this error and quits... "Impossible to open database C:\windows\profiles\superbug\My Documents\Profilipro\Libraries\ProfiliProNoPolar.mdb." > The file is present at the location that it calls for but the program must need something else other than a file at that location. I searched the archives and tried the commands winetricks jet40 and winetricks mdac28 in a terminal window before running but still nogo. The archive lists a winetrick mdac25 but that just brings up an error when ran in the terminal.Is the file located on your UNIX drive or did you link this back to a file on an NTFS partition in a 'real Windows' installation?
OK...I deleted the program with the Wine GUI. I then opened a terminal and did a mkdir of /home/superbug/profilicam. I then executed the code suggested to create a fresh wine prefix and all of that went smoothly along with the new winetricks for that prefix. I had the profili.exe file in the folder I created and had wine do the install. After the fresh install the program gave me the same error but with a slightly different destination path "Impossible to open database C:\users\superbug\My Documents\ProfiliPro\Libraries\ProfiliProNoPolar.mdb". I did check to make sure the program did install in the new folder /home/superbug/profilicam which is the new prefix. I did notice a note in the terminal after the jet40 winetricks command that the install was complete but the installed file /home/////dao360.dll not found. IDK if this is normal or not. Any other ideas? TIA.
perryh at pluto.rain.com
2011-Aug-07 08:14 UTC
[Wine] Profili Pro software needs mdb file?
"superbug20" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> ...do you have to run the winetrick commands in a terminal every > time before running the software or are they installed and good > to go now?Once you have installed a particular winetrick into a particular prefix, it is "permanently" installed in that prefix. (In most cases, the only way to get rid of it would be to delete the whole prefix.) However, installing a winetrick into one prefix won't have any effect on other prefixes. Winetricks does maintain a cache of what it has downloaded, so any given _download_ doesn't need to be repeated even if the distfile is used needed more than one winetrick and/or installed into more than one prefix. This cache is stored separately, not in any prefix.
I had a thought last night....If I do an install on a Windoz machine and grab the file that I'm having the error with would that be an option?
On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 13:43 -0500, superbug20 wrote:> Profili is airplane wing profile software that will generate G-code > for a CNC router. >I suppose you know that Profili is pretty much just a wing section library and a Windows GUI wrapper for XFOIL and that XFOIL can be easily downloaded and compiled as a native Linux application. Would using that approach solve your problem? Martin