Program Install error messages

[LanceHaverkamp]

Installing a new web page creation program: http://www.xsitepro.com/download_xsp.html. It requires .NET

I installed ie6 & .NET framework 2 via WineTricks successfully.

I'm still getting two error messages:

C:\ProgramFiles\xsitepro2\VideoEdit.ocx couldn't be registered.
&
Can't get TreeView component.

Any suggestions? I'm a Wine Newbie, so use long explanations!

[vitamin]

Any suggestions?

Don't use such programs on Wine.

Find a good Linux native program. Most will work much better. Or if it's real .net app - run in on Mono not Wine.

[LanceHaverkamp]

There is nothing even close in Linux. It's a full GUI, point & click web page builder with zero xhtml or css knowledge required. Unfortunately a lot of Linux developers don't realize that there are people called "users" who have no desire to write code (nor ever see a command line for that matter).

real .net app

As opposed to what? I don't know enough about modern Windows programs to know what the difference is.

I looked at mono, apparently they're idiots:

• Their installation web page only has instructions for installing the developer version--not a user version.
  They have no supported Debian or 'buntu version, despite that fact that over half of the world's desktop Linux installations are Debian based.
  The 'buntu packages (therefore probably the Debian version as well) are cut-up into 20+ little packages, so unless you are intimately familiar with all the mono components, you have no idea what is actually needed (users are screwed)

[LanceHaverkamp]

OK, did some research. This is not a "real .net" program, it is a 32 bit windows executable, that requires .net 2.0. It won't accept the windows version of mono in lieu of .NET. It is not installing properly under WINE + .NET (winetricks).

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Lance

[Usurp]

OK, did some research. This is not a "real .net" program, it is a 32 bit windows executable, that requires .net 2.0. It won't accept the windows version of mono in lieu of .NET. It is not installing properly under WINE + .NET (winetricks).

Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Lance

Hi Lance, a "real .net program" makes use of .net functionality and nothing else. It still appears as a 32 bit windows executable though.

Looking at the XSitePro2 files, they almost are .net executables, thus it should be ok to try it from Mono.
The non .net part is the installer (Astrum Installer), which seems to work under Wine.

Regards,
Sylvain Petreolle

[qwertymn]

the error messages you get is because the .ocx needs mfc42 to register. Also it needs wmvcore.


Try this:

'winetricks mfc42 dotnet20 wmp10'

Then install the app, and try to run it. (all this in a fresh new ~/.wine)

regards