i click the .exe and tell it to open with wine and i get some crazy window here is a screen shot... (a picture is worth a thousand words... )
im using:
wine-1.1.15
installing from a download off EBGames (not using C.D.)
ubuntu 8.10

Run it from the terminal and post output here. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df ... b8edc21619M!SF!TS wrote:i click the .exe and tell it to open with wine and i get some crazy window here is a screen shot... (a picture is worth a thousand words... )
Try native shdocvw (winetricks ie6).fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceActiveObject_TranslateAccelerator (0x143ca0)->(0x32f4d4)
fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceActiveObject_TranslateAccelerator (0x143ca0)->(0x32f4d4)
fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceActiveObject_TranslateAccelerator (0x143ca0)->(0x32f4d4)
fixme:shdocvw:InPlaceActiveObject_TranslateAccelerator (0x143ca0)->(0x32f4d4)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
that line right their kept repeating itself in the terminal over and over and over...
shdocvw is a windows dll. Winetricks ie6 will install native ie6 whichOkay ? you want me to use winetricks ? okay... what do you mean by native shdocvw
Just ie6.and what packages would i install in wine tricks ?
"Cannot find cabextract. Please install it (e.g. 'sudo apt-getOkay went to did this ...
$ sh winetricks
picked the package ie6
(the one you said i believe)
i got an error and abort message and this in terminal:
nick@linux-box:~$ sh winetricks
Cannot find cabextract. Please install it (e.g. 'sudo apt-get install cabextract' or 'sudo yum install cabextract').
Executing wget -nd -c --read-timeout=300 --retry-connrefused --header Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... stMsiA.exe
--2009-02-21 23:41:48-- http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... stMsiA.exe
Resolving download.microsoft.com... 87.248.218.234, 87.248.218.205
Connecting to download.microsoft.com|87.248.218.234|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1709160 (1.6M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `InstMsiA.exe'
100%[====================================>] 1,709,160 350K/s in 4.8s
2009-02-21 23:41:53 (347 KB/s) - `InstMsiA.exe' saved [1709160/1709160]
Executing cabextract --directory=/home/nick/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp /home/nick/.winetrickscache/InstMsiA.exe
winetricks: 1717: cabextract: not found
Note: command 'cabextract --directory=/home/nick/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp /home/nick/.winetrickscache/InstMsiA.exe' returned status 127. Aborting.
nick@linux-box:~$
Hmm, strange. Seems it hung somewhere. Probably a conflict with someOkay did this...
$ sudo apt-get install cabextract
and it did...
next i did this...
$ sh winetricks
and installed ie6
and it did... BUT i got some error and dont wanna touch a button untill someone that knows what their doing tells me to
(a picture is worth a thousand words...)
[Image: http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/flykri/ie6.png ]
try 'winetricks wininet'Okay... i Clicked Terminate Process...
got on terminal
and executed the .exe ($ cd /home/whatever/whatever/pirates
($ wine Pirates.exe)
and i got happy for a second because i seen this screen...
[Image: http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/f ... enshot.png ]
but then another wrench in the gears, shortly after that screen i got this...
and it never progressed and terminal came to a halt
[Image: http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g52/f ... shot-1.png ]
and this is what was displayed in the terminal...
nick@linux-box:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Firaxis Games/Sid Meier's Pirates!$ wine Pirates.exe
Is this program protected by some sort of DRM protection? If so, itAny Idea's ? i'm fresh out spent all day now trying to get it to work...