wine users - Dec 2011 - Can't install Civ4

I know this is a long shot, but I have to ask.

I had tried to get Civ4 working in Wine without success in the past, but
recently was encouraged to try again based on reports in the Civ4 linux forum.
One key was that versions before 1.3.X didn't work.

Running openSuse 11.4, which installed Wine 1.3.12, I just followed the usual
procedure to install Civ4, Beyond the Sword and my favorite mod, ROM-AND. This
is not the easiest install in native Windoze, btw. I was pleasantly surprised
that each step just worked without my doing anything out of the ordinary. I just
double clicked on the appropriate install files and it all installed without a
hitch. To get it to run I had to copy two .dll's to system32, per notes in
appDB and Civ4 linux forum.Then it all worked. WHOOHOO! This is a very elaborate
and resource intensive game if you are using the ROM-AND mod, even in Windblows,
That it not only worked but worked well in Wine (better than in Win in my
experience) was amazing.

But, due to other problems, I decided to install Suse 12.1 as a clean install to
clean up some things. That worked well, and Suse installed 1.3.33 for me, and
then updated it to 1.3.34. Wine works fine, and I have installed some lite
weight programs with no problem.

The kicker is, the installer for Civ4 will not run now, as in does not install.
After starting it the same way it terminates with a message:

An error has occurred while running the setup.

Please make sure you have finished any previous setup and closed other
applications.
If the error still occurs please contact your vendor: Fireaxis Games.
Then follows an url to the vendor at the time (circa 2005), so this message has
to be coming from the installer for Civ4.

It spits out the following info:

Error Code:	-5006 : 0x8000ffff
Error Information:
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\ObjectHolder.cpp (442)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\ObjectHolder.cpp (442)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (87)
>Kernel\FileGroup.cpp (520)
>Kernel\ServiceProvider.cpp (109)
>K>SetupDLL\SetupDLL.cpp (1284)
PAPP:Sid Meier's Civilization 4

Anyone got a clue why, apparently, this one installer won't even take off,
much less finish, when it did before? And yes, I did make sure the install file
was not corrupted.

BobTheBull wrote:
> 
> But, due to other problems, I decided to install Suse 12.1 as a clean
install to clean up some things. That worked well, and Suse installed 1.3.33 for
me, and then updated it to 1.3.34. Wine works fine, and I have installed some
lite weight programs with no problem.
> 
> The kicker is, the installer for Civ4 will not run now, as in does not
install. After starting it the same way it terminates with a message:
> 
Terminal output? http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

I could have told you that wouldn't work, because I tried it before.

But I did it anyway because you said to, everything from the command line. The
only difference is all that in the error log I posted before is now in my BASH
window.

To repeat, there is something quercky going on that prevents this installshield
from running.

Well, Glory Be!

Did that and it worked. The installer ran and installed the first step. This is
a difficult install and many people have had a lot of trouble with it in
Windows; there are 6 installer to run to get the whole thing installed.

Could have sworn I did that before because that was one of the suggestions in
the Civ4 forum, but must have done it wrong. Just at a guess, does it matter
that you set winearch after setting wineprefix?. Another observation: after
setting the above in terminal had to run each installer from the terminal. If I
double clicked on the .exe it was installed to the default prefix,
/home/username/.wine. Since I want this set up in it's own bottle on my data
drive, as it takes 4.1G for the whole install, I kept using the command line and
it worked.

It did set up an icon in programs menu which I copied to favorites to make
starting the game easy. It does load all the way, although have not really
played it yet.

Many thanks for all your help. After some game play to affirm it really works I
guess I should post this in appsDB.