Has anyone successfully gotten Minitab 17 to work?

[Ronaldo]

The only computer in my household runs Ubuntu and I need Minitab 17 for school this semester. I've read Wine's documentation, installed it, installed minitab 17 (and it's currently in my :C// (sp?) drive. When I try to run the .exe file, I get the error:

A necessarycomponent could not be created. Error code: 80040154

This seems to be a recurring problem for a lot of people:
https://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-b ... 95237.html
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=34340

Has anyone managed to figure this out?

[Bob Wya]

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Has anyone managed to figure this out?

I would suggest that if you want this issue to get fixed you would need to file a WineHQ Bug Report.
Apparently nobody else has bothered to do this...

I'd suggest you read the WineHQ: Wine FAQ first - if you haven't already done so!

If the Wine terminal output, from running your application, is very limited...
Then it might be worth enabling much more verbose Wine debug terminal output:

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export WINEDEBUG=+all
wine ... &>wine_minitab_debug_log.txt
xz -z -9 -e wine_minitab_debug_log.txt

This can provide useful extra information for WineHQ bug reports.
Especially for proprietary software that Wine Developers cannot download / access themselves.
It's generally recommend to compress Wine logs that have all channels enabled (as above) - as these files can get very big, really quickly!
The resulting .xz log file can be attached to a WineHQ Bugzilla bug report.
See: WineHQ: Wine Debug Channels ...

Please use the forum Code

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tags for any terminal output (not Quote tags)... Thanks!

Bob

[dimesio]

I would suggest that if you want this issue to get fixed you would need to file a WineHQ Bug Report.
Apparently nobody else has bothered to do this... :roll:

Someone did, and the OR even linked to the wine-bugs archive version of it. The direct bugzilla link is https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37277.

@Ronaldo: The bug report hasn't been updated in a long time and there's no log attached. You didn't mention what Wine version you're using. If it's not the latest development release, retest in that, and if the problem is still present, add a comment that this is still an issue, and attach a log as Bob suggested.

[Bob Wya]

@Ronaldo,

The bug report that dimesio linked to is next to useless - especially since it wasn't linked back to application it was filed against!

A detailed terminal log would probably elicit some actual progress on resolving getting your application to work.

To link a bug report to the tested Minitab version (say version 17)....

1. File the bug first.
2. Just go to WineHQ AppDB: Mathematics / Minitab / 17 ...
3. Then put your WineHQ bug number in the box beside the button: Submit a new bug link .
4. Then press the Submit a new bug link button!

Bob