winetricks or not ?

chourmovs · Post by **chourmovs** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:49 am

we often say here directx installation can break wine
What about Dan kegel winetricks ?
It is safe to install microsoft distribuable package or it may break wine ?

What we can do, what we can't ?

For exemple, when wine console tell us msvcr80.dll is missing, what is better or safer:

- installing vcrun2005 via winetricks
- copy the missing downloaded dll in system32 ?

the both works for my particular case of course

Thank you

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:07 pm

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, chourmovs <[email protected]> wrote:

we often say here directx installation can break wine
What about Dan kegel winetricks ?
It is safe to install microsoft distribuable package or it may break wine ?

What we can do, what we can't ?

For exemple, when wine console tell us msvcr80.dll is missing, what is better or safer:

- installing vcrun2005 via winetricks
- copy the missing downloaded dll in system32 ?

Probably copying it from a windows directory or extracting the runtime
from the installer and copying that... (Probaly to the program folder
in a separate WINEPREFIX as well if you are really paranoid...)

I think the (non-DirectX) redistributables is probably a bad example,
as it is necessary to install them on Windows as well...

You have no way of knowing that the downloaded DLL is not virus infected...

WINEPREFIXes really make the damage of a mistake a lot less...

You might get quite a decent trusted, safe DLL collection by
installing everything into a separate WINEPREFIX with winetricks and
copying all the DLL files before deleting it...

Gert

Pavel Troller · Post by **Pavel Troller** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:08 pm

Hi!

we often say here directx installation can break wine
What about Dan kegel winetricks ?
It is safe to install microsoft distribuable package or it may break wine ?

As I understand it, winetricks is just a script, which simplifies installation
of various third-party components onto wine directory. It doesn't add anything
by itself, so it cannot make any harm. You can freely selects which particular
packages to install and which not, winetrick is not doing anything withoud your
knowledge.

With regards, Pavel Troller

What we can do, what we can't ?

For exemple, when wine console tell us msvcr80.dll is missing, what is better or safer:

- installing vcrun2005 via winetricks
- copy the missing downloaded dll in system32 ?

the both works for my particular case of course

Thank you

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:57 pm

chourmovs wrote:we often say here directx installation can break wine
What about Dan kegel winetricks ?

Same, it can break or make some programs work. It really depends on each individual program.

Don't loose the Wine's objective - no windows required to run windows programs. Remember that to install most m$' redistributables you need a valid windows license.

loltsy · Post by **loltsy** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:16 am

Last time I tried installing the redistributable with winetricks it installed nothing at all. I even did a diff against a clean prefix and there was not a single change.

I suspect it's snake oil for silly people or something.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:14 pm

loltsy wrote:

Last time I tried installing the redistributable with winetricks it installed nothing at all. I even did a diff against a clean prefix and there was not a single change.

Which one? It appears that you had problems and failed to act on them.
Without the package name, we out here cannot confirm your problem or
provide assistance.

I suspect it's snake oil for silly people or something.

No, I've used it and it does work. I've installed DCOM 98 and others.
Dan advises when something does not work or does not work well with
Winetricks.

James McKenzie