need help using WINE

Gary Lubrani · Post by **Gary Lubrani** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:17 am

how do I add a program to wine? Wine comes with Notepad and that works
well but how do I install the e-Sword.exe I want to use? I also saw a
iexplore.exe - can I use Internet explorer in Ubuntu Linux and if so, how
do I do that? Thanks much for any help ...
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Markus Hitter · Post by **Markus Hitter** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:48 am

Am 21.03.2008 um 00:31 schrieb Gary Lubrani:

how do I add a program to wine?

Add it the same way you'd add it to a Windows installation: Put the
installer on the C: drive, then run it. By default, Wine maps
$HOME/.wine/drive_c/ to C:, applications are run by double-clicking
them.

Markus

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vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 8:42 am

Gary Lubrani wrote:how do I add a program to wine? Wine comes with Notepad and that works
well but how do I install the e-Sword.exe I want to use? I also saw a
iexplore.exe - can I use Internet explorer in Ubuntu Linux and if so, how
do I do that? Thanks much for any help ...

What Markus said - installing those programs first.
With IE - no you can't run it as-is on Wine. If your really have to have it - look at ies4linux.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:45 am

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Gary Lubrani <[email protected]> wrote:

how do I add a program to wine? Wine comes with Notepad and that works
well but how do I install the e-Sword.exe I want to use?

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=1341
shows that eSword works with wine -- if you grab a few
native DLLs. I tried it myself just now, and came up with
an easier recipe. Try this:

First, download and install e-Sword in Wine.
Try running it. You won't see any text in the
"tip of the day" or in the lower pane. To
work around this problem in Wine, copy and
paste these commands into a terminal window
(careful, it's dangerous to trust strangers, but you
can trust me

:

wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
./winetricks riched20 msls31

This will install Microsoft Reader and then copy a needed native
dll from it. After you do this, e-Sword should work properly.
Let me know what happens.

That page also mentions that there's a native Linux alternative,
http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/
which you might want to look at.

Good luck,
Dan

Paul Johnson · Post by **Paul Johnson** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 9:59 am

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On Thursday 20 March 2008 04:31:49 pm Gary Lubrani wrote:

how do I add a program to wine? Wine comes with Notepad and that works
well but how do I install the e-Sword.exe I want to use?

Install it like you would any other program in windows.

I also saw a iexplore.exe - can I use Internet explorer in Ubuntu Linux and
if so, how do I do that?

You can, but it's an incredably bad idea unless a program you use absolutely
depends on it. IE is non-trivial to install in Wine, and IE suffers from a
large number of security issues making it unsuitable for use by anyone who
doesn't want to get compromised. Use Konqueror or Iceweasel (or Firefox)
instead.

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Paul Johnson
[email protected]
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James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:35 pm

Dan Kegel wrote:

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Gary Lubrani <[email protected]> wrote:

how do I add a program to wine? Wine comes with Notepad and that works
well but how do I install the e-Sword.exe I want to use?

Let me know what happens.

That page also mentions that there's a native Linux alternative,
http://gnomesword.sourceforge.net/
which you might want to look at.

This might be a different program. eSword only exists for Windows,
according to the creator of the program.
There is NO Mac version available as MacSword is for a completely
different set of files.

Thank you for the update Dan. Is there a HowTo for this Application?
If not, I will create one.

James McKenzie
Maintainer, eSword Application

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 10:59 pm

James McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you for the update Dan. Is there a HowTo for this Application?
If not, I will create one.

Go ahead. I didn't see one. Hopefully my little winetricks one-liner
will make it painless.

battlestarjesus · Post by **battlestarjesus** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:50 am

I am a complete noob to the WINE. I want to install from an ISO. How do I do it? I want to be able to mount an ISO so a program can access it when it needs program data, how do I do it?

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:26 am

battlestarjesus wrote:I am a complete noob to the WINE. I want to install from an ISO. How do I do it? I want to be able to mount an ISO so a program can access it when it needs program data, how do I do it?

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sudo mount /path/to/file.iso /mnt/my_cd -o loop

If above makes no sense to your - head straight to your distro's forum and some general FAQ. Wine itself does not mount ISO images - your system does.

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:54 am

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:26 AM, vitamin <[email protected]> wrote:

I want to install from an ISO. How do I do it? I want to
be able to mount an ISO so a program can access it when it needs program data, how do I do it?
sudo mount /path/to/file.iso /mnt/my_cd -o loop

Better to make it read-only, too! e.g.

sudo mount my.iso /mnt -o ro,loop