Wine Keeps crashing

[chrisguk]

Hi,

I am running Ubuntu 13.04. I completed the necessary

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sudo apt-get update

and

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apt-get upgrade

in order to refresh the installation.

I then installed the following:

Wine1.4-i386
PlayOnLinux

For some reason unknown to me I every MS or Adobe product I own for example; my Office 2007 and Adobe Photoshop CS4 crashes upon installation. Ive tried everything I know and cant seem to figure out the problem.

Can anyone assist please?

[dimesio]

Your Wine version is old; upgrade to the latest development release.

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. Their install script for Office 2007 in particular is wrong. If you insist on using it, ask for help on their forum. If you want help here, follow the instructions in the AppDB for installing Office 2007. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=4992

Adobe CS4 and later installers do not work in Wine. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18070
There is an old patch in the bug report you can try, though I don't know if it will apply to current Wine. The alternative is to copy a Windows install.

[chrisguk]

Your Wine version is old; upgrade to the latest development release.

PlayOnLinux is not supported here. Their install script for Office 2007 in particular is wrong. If you insist on using it, ask for help on their forum. If you want help here, follow the instructions in the AppDB for installing Office 2007. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=4992

Adobe CS4 and later installers do not work in Wine. http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18070
There is an old patch in the bug report you can try, though I don't know if it will apply to current Wine. The alternative is to copy a Windows install.

I will ditch PlayOnLinux and apologies I didnt release the conflict. I will follow that guide and report back.

Just to let you know I am unable to install anything with Wine, I have tried the following apps, that people have reported work:

Camtasia Studio
Office 2007
Photoshop CS4

[chrisguk]

Well, I tried that and its not working. Back to the lonely drawboard. It wont even open the .exe file

[dimesio]

Just to let you know I am unable to install anything with Wine, I have tried the following apps, that people have reported work:

Camtasia Studio
Office 2007
Photoshop CS4

The "working" versions of Photoshop CS4 are from people who either patched Wine to make the installer work or copied a Windows install. I don't know where you got the idea Camtasia Studio works--the AppDB rates it garbage. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=7983

Office 2007, however, should install without problems. But make sure you have a clean wineprefix, as your previous failed attempts to install could prevent the installer from working. Delete ~/.wine before trying to install again.

[dimesio]

Well, I tried that and its not working.

If the Office 2007 installer isn't working in current Wine in a clean wineprefix, post terminal output. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

[chrisguk]

This is the ouput:

chrisguk@akira:~/Desktop/Office2007$ wine setup.exe
err:process:create_process starting 64-bit process L"Z:\\home\\chrisguk\\Desktop\\Office2007\\setup.exe" not supported in 32-bit wineprefix
wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\chrisguk\Desktop\Office2007\setup.exe.
chrisguk@akira:~/Desktop/Office2007$

[warmos]

not supported in 32-bit wineprefix

Mate, your .wine is 32 bit and programs or games that you are trying to install, are 64 bit... download 32 bit versions or you need to make 64bit wine prefix.
Try:

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apt-get remove wine1.4-i386
apt-get install wine1.5-amd64

You need to have 64bit processor + 64bit OS. If you installed 32bit linux, you can't run 64 bit applications

[chrisguk]

Opps ok. So let me throw something else into the mix. If I install 64bit OS, which isnt a problem because I have a Core Duo Processor. Is it easy to install 32 bit apps with wine1.5-amd64?

[dimesio]

Where did you get Office 2007 from, and are you sure it's 2007 and not 2010? AFAIK, Office 2007 was only released in 32 bit; the first version of Office to come in 64 bit was 2010.

[chrisguk]

I ripped it from my DVD, it's an enterprise installer

[chrisguk]

The installer was messed up. I am going to extract the files from the dvd again.

By the way how would I install 32 bit apps in a 64 bit environment?

[dimesio]

Some 32 bit apps will work in Wine's WoW64; for those, just run the installer. For apps that will only work in a 32 bit wineprefix (Office 2007/2010 are among them), create a 32 bit wineprefix with

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WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/path/to/wineprefix winecfg

(substitute the actual path to the wineprefix), then install to that. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#wineprefix