winex install problems

[tom56]

I use Mandrake 9.1, and am trying to install WineX using the rpm from http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=994 the problem is that when I run it I get an error saying that I need:

perl(Cwd)
perl(File::Basename)
perl(Fie::Copy)
perl(strict)

I have installed both perl and perl-devel but I'm still getting this message, what should I do?

[Icarus]

psyche is Red Hat 8...probally won't work on Mandrake, and MDK 9.1 is newer then RH8

Try getting the source from www.transgaming.com and compiling it. It will be more upto date the RPM and it's easy to install, if you follow the directions

[tom56]

I've done this like they said on the transgaming website:

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login

$ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co wine

And everything seemed to go fine. Now what do I do, I think I need to ./configure, but in which directory, where did it go?

[Icarus]

more README ;)

The readme will practically walk you through it.
Basicly, cd to the wine directory then tools/wineinstall as root and it will do all the compiling and such for you.

Once it asks to create a wine.conf say no, finish the install and logout of root.

Then do the same as a user, it will skip the compile (root has already done this) and have it make the config for the user.
Wine is a very bad thing to let root do...because wine can allow Windows virii to run on Linux ;)

[tom56]

I don't know which directory that is.

BTW, where is this readme anyway? I can't find it anywhere.

[Icarus]

Whatever directory you where in when you downloaded the CVS is where the wine directory will be. If you forgot where that was (I do that a lot:rolleyes: )
updatedb
then
locate wine

That will tell you where every file that has 'wine' in it's name or path.

[tom56]

OK, I've got that far. Now the problem is this, sometime during make something goes wrong and it gives me this:

In file included from d3dgl_private.h:5,
from caps.c:20:
../../include/wine_gl.h:31:20: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [caps.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/wine/dlls/d3dgl'
make[1]: *** [d3dgl/libd3dgl.so] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/wine/dlls'
make: *** [dlls] Error 2

What does that mean and how do I fix it?

[tucolino]

try installing mesa

[myshkin]

yea get the mesa libs. ive just done installing winex about a minute ago.

you can get it from here (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3&release_id=149763)

MesaLib-5.0.1.tar.gz

[tom56]

I installed the Mesa 5.0-3mdk rpm (and the libs it needed too), but I still get the same message:

In file included from d3dgl_private.h:5,
from caps.c:20:
../../include/wine_gl.h:31:20: GL/glu.h: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** [caps.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/wine/dlls/d3dgl'
make[1]: *** [d3dgl/libd3dgl.so] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/wine/dlls'
make: *** [dlls] Error 2

Any ideas?

[bwkaz]

Mesa-devel is what they should have said. ;)

And beware -- if you have an nVidia card and have installed their drivers, installing Mesa overwrites the libGL file. Reinstall the nVidia drivers after messing with Mesa.

[tom56]

I will try that. Thanks for warning me, I had a feeling something like that might happen.

[tom56]

It's all finished, thanks for all the help.

[tom56]

OK, this may sound really stupid but...

How do I run a game. I tried "winex setup.exe" in my Half-Life CD but it didn't work :(

[bwkaz]

When you say it didn't work, what error did you get?

The WineX CVS doesn't install itself as "winex", either, just "wine". So that might be part of the issue. The other part might be that the default place it puts wine is /usr/local/bin (and libraries in /usr/local/lib), which isn't always in your PATH variable. And /usr/local/lib isn't always listed in /etc/ld.so.conf. But the error message (try wine instead of winex) should give a better idea of where to go...

[tom56]

With "wine setup.exe" I get this:

Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory /mnt/cdrom; starting in windows directory.
/usr/bin/wine.bin: cannot find 'setup.exe'

[bwkaz]

Edit your ~/.wine/config file, and make sure that /mnt/cdrom has a Drive section that references it.

It should look something like:

[Drive e]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

(or similar).

[tom56]

I can't find that file, is there any other place it could be?

[tom56]

woops, silly me, of course I can't find it. it's hidden.

[tom56]

Yay, it's works now!!! Thanks so much everyone! Just one last small question, when installing Half-Life, where should I install it to.

Here is my config, C is my other (windows) hard drive, so I'm pretty certainn it doesn't go there:

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/mnt/windows"
"Type" = "hd"
"Filesystem" = "vfat"

[Drive D]
"Path" = "/tmp"
"Type" = "hd"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive E]
"Path" = "${HOME}"
"Type" = "network"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive F]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[wine]
"windows" = "C:\\windows"
"system" = "C:\\windows\\SYSTEM"
"path" = "C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\COMMAND"
"temp" = "C:\\WINDOWS\\TEMP"

[bwkaz]

Anywhere you want. If your C drive is NTFS, then you probably don't have write access to it, so install it in your home directory somewhere.

If your C drive is FAT32, then you might as well put it there -- it is a Windows game, after all (I've got mine installed at D:\Sierra\Half-Life-Linux; I have a Windows C and D drive, mounted at /mnt/windows and /mnt/slave, respectively).