MDAC v 2.1 - trouble downloading

[cidl77]

Hi all,

Hoping someone can help me. Apologies up front I am completely new to Wine and, indeed, the whole idea of running Windows applications on a Mac.

I am trying to run a programme called Total Cricket Scorer: http://www.totalcricketscorer.com/TCSWe ... chase.aspx

I have installed this on my Mac using Wine, but when I try to open it I get the following message: "This application requires MDAC v2.1 or above. This can be obtained from http://www.microsoft.com"

I have tried to download MDAC but keep getting an error message: "This setup does not support installing on this operating system"

Is it possible to download MDAC on to a Mac (using Wine?) and if so a link to where to do this from (and how to do it!?) would be great?

If anyone knows an easier way to install Total Cricket Scorer on a Mac that would be great as well.

Sorry for all the questions; and for posting on here if some of them are a bit dumb. Before anyone asks I did look at the FAQs but they may as well be written in French!

Thanks in advance,
Craig

[dimesio]

Install MDAC with winetricks. http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks

[rhodesmi]

Hi

I had the same issue installing Total Cricket Scorer (TCS) in ubuntu

Yes install winetricks but then run this command

sh winetricks mdac28

Now TCS 8 and 7 are both working in Ubuntu.

[stevie123]

Hi, I am trying to run TCS under Ununtu, I wonder if you could help me.

I have installed Wine, and I think winetricks (though I had to do that following a command line from the web site)

I have installed TCS and I have an icon on my desktop. When I click that I get the turning circle for a few seconds then nothing.

The desk top icon is configured to run "env WINEPREFIX="/home/steve/.wine" wine C:\\windows\\command\\start.exe C:\\users\\steve\\Desktop\\Total\ Cricket\ Scorer\ 8.lnk"

When I put that into a terminal I get: fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100
Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file.
ShellExecuteEx failed: File not found.

Any ideas are welcome, thanks.

Ubuntu 15.10
TCS 8
Wine: wine 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu10

[dimesio]

.lnk files don't do anything. https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3548

Run the app from the command line. https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_User's_Gui ... mmand_line

FYI, 1.6.2 is over two years old and no longer supported, so if you have any further problems, upgrade before asking for help.

[stevie123]

Thanks for this.

I installed this version from searching 'wine' in Ubuntu Software Centre so thought I would be installed in the correct version.

I have removed it using Software Centre (and also "Wine program loader" and "Winetricks").

Can I not install from Software Centre?

I went to WineHQ and the "Installing WineHQ packages" page for Ubuntu.

Followed the instructions up to "sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel"

When I get:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
winehq-devel : Depends: wine-devel (= 1.9.4~ubuntu15.10.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

No idea what all that means, not even sure that it is the devel version that I need.

Any ideas?

[dimesio]

Make sure you have uninstalled everything that depends on the old Wine package, such as wine-mono and wine-gecko and re-run sudo apt-get update after doing that. Also install any missing dependencies your package manager complains about.

[stevie123]

I thought I had done that by removing them with Software Centre. I don't have the experience with Ubuntu to know what it installed or how to remove the things you mention other than to reinstall Ubuntu. Is there any guidance on a web site somewhere that you could direct me to?

Sorry to have to ask, I thought I was doing the right thing by installing from Software Centre.