I have an app (MobileSheetsCompanion) that won't run, complaining I need to install .net 4, even after I installed mono 2.10 with winetricks. My understanding was mono would make .net apps work.

Edit: started fresh in a new wineprefix and installed the real dotnet4 with the help of winetricks and gacutil script. However, now MobileSheetsCompanion won't install. when I start the msi installer it returns


fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"VSDCA_VsdLaunchConditions" returned 1603

Hi,

please try with latest wine, if you haven't already. If it still shouldn't work, please file a bug.

I sort of tried, but will try again with a clean wineprefix. Should I try mono or real dotnet?

I'd prefer MS dotnet. Though the "err:msi" message isn't related to .NET, it indicates a bug in wine's MSI, so filing a bug would probably make sense.

Well, before filing a bug that might have been fixed I might try the latest. I am running the latest stable 1.41. If I try the latest dev 1.58, is it best to uninstall 1.41 first before installing 1.58, then if I want to go back to 1.41, reverse that and uninstall 1.58 before returning to 1.41 ?

If you are using some kind of package manager to install latest wine, it will do everything for you, explicitly uninstalling wine isn't necessary. Up/Downgrading wine via your package manager won't change the content of your .wine folder. Yet you should use a new wineprefix (backup/move the old .wine folder), and install dotnet and your app again.

OK, I installed the new wine 1.5.8 package (noted it removed 1.4).

Then I installed dotnet4 using winetricks. It warns that the installation will fail first time, and yes it does. Opening "uninstall wine software" and doing a repair on dotnet4 says it succeeds. Is this all I need to do?

My MobileSheetsCompanion software still fails to install when I run ' wine start MobileSheetsCompanion.msi" with the same errors




I also tried just copying the contents of the apps folder from a working Windows installation, but when I run it, it pops up a gui window saying I need to install .net 4 first - so apparently it can't see the wine dotnet installation.

I gave the app a whirl with wine from git and winetricks from svn.
winetricks -q dotnet40 ran fine.
The app installed fine.
Starting up ran into http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31105
winetricks -q windowscodecs got past that, but then the app hit
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29676

So it'll be a little bit before this app runs in Wine.

Thanks for trying that. I guess I need to set up a VM for that app then, at least for a while.

I notice you use '-q' to install dotnet40. Is that the reason you don't see the failure error (that it warns you you will get), or is there some reason my wine won't install it cleanly?

-q just means "don't prompt for anything".

Should work fine in wine-1.5.8 with or without the -q.

That comment about it installing twice was outdated, I've removed
it as of r857.

I am running the latest stable 1.41. If I try the latest dev 1.58, is it best to uninstall 1.41 first before installing 1.58, then if I want to go back to 1.41, reverse that and uninstall 1.58 before returning to 1.41 ?