How long for an msxml install?

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How long for an msxml install?

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I'm using winetricks to try and install msxml3 and the machine takes forever and never seems to finish. The CPU runs at max and according to the process list, msiexec is running, but I've left it as long as 90 minutes and it never seems to finish. Is this normal? The machine is a pretty fast box P4, 1.8 Ghz, 512 MB ram. I installed richedit20 and richedit30 with no problem.
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Re: How long for an msxml install?

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brucehvn wrote:I'm using winetricks to try and install msxml3 and the machine takes forever and never seems to finish. The CPU runs at max and according to the process list, msiexec is running, but I've left it as long as 90 minutes and it never seems to finish. Is this normal? The machine is a pretty fast box P4, 1.8 Ghz, 512 MB ram. I installed richedit20 and richedit30 with no problem.
No, it's not normal. What version of Wine are you running? What you describe sounds like a regression that affected 1.1.1, but it was fixed in 1.1.2.
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I may be onto the problem. I changed the location of my "drive_c" folder to another location other than my home directory by changing the symlink in ~/.wine/dosdevices. While wine seems to work properly after doing this, winetricks appears to use a hard coded path of ~/.wine/drive_c for the windows C drive. I'm investigating to see if this is the problem.
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I hope that other location is not your real Windows C:\ drive.
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a2 ... 2c7767afa2
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No, I just wanted the drive_c folder to reside in a place with lots of space rather than my home directory. I'll try a manual install of the msxml to see if everything goes to the right place.
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Ok, the problem appears to be that msxml3 requires riched20 be be installed first. Since winetricks was installing riched20 to the wrong folder, it didn't work. Once riched20 was installed properly, then the msxml3 installed with no problem. I still had to change winetricks to change the following references:

"$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/..."

to

"$WINEPREFIX/dosdevices/c:/...

in order for it to work properly.
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