Wine installation problems

avidgamer123 · Post by **avidgamer123** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:49 pm

So I went to sourceforge.net and dowloaded the 1.1.10 version of Wine. The problem is that after I download it, I cannot open the file because "an error occurred while opening the achrive." What does this mean and how do I get Wine? Thank you.

Addys · Post by **Addys** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:05 pm

Download links and instructions from http://www.winehq.org/download

Some distros also have wine in their repositories, but it may be an old version.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:11 pm

avidgamer123 wrote:

So I went to sourceforge.net and dowloaded the 1.1.10 version of Wine. The problem is that after I download it, I cannot open the file because "an error occurred while opening the achrive." What does this mean and how do I get Wine? Thank you.

Which distribution of Linux/UNIX do you have? Visit the downloads page
of WineHQ to see if a prepackaged version exists. Also, FYI, 1.1.10 is
an old distribution (about 10 weeks or so old). Is there a particular
reason you need this version? If not, please try to use version 1.1.15
or if you need a stable released version 1.0.1.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

avidgamer123 · Post by **avidgamer123** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:03 pm

ok so I have wine installed on linux now (ubuntu). I did it the way that they told me to through the downloads page (clicked on the link for ubuntu). so i have it now. now what? how do I programs going with it?

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 10:04 pm

avidgamer123 wrote:ok so I have wine installed on linux now (ubuntu). I did it the way that they told me to through the downloads page (clicked on the link for ubuntu). so i have it now. now what? how do I programs going with it?

http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ

avidgamer123 · Post by **avidgamer123** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 11:47 pm

right right. duh. my bad. thanks guys.

avidgamer123 · Post by **avidgamer123** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:07 am

ok. so I did the whole thing to get Zune but when i went to open the file/installer with wine it said that there was a "bad exe format error" or something along those lines. what am i doing wrong? I downloaded it straight from the zune.net website! help please. thanks.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:49 am

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:07 PM, avidgamer123
<[email protected]> wrote:

ok. so I did the whole thing to get Zune but when i went to open the file/installer with wine it said that there was a "bad exe format error" or something along those lines. what am i doing wrong? I downloaded it straight from the zune.net website! help please. thanks.

Corrupt download possibly?

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-Austin

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 1:30 am

avidgamer123 wrote:ok. so I did the whole thing to get Zune

You can stop right there. Wine does not work with any hardware directly. You'll have to use virtual machine or separate partition.

avidgamer123 · Post by **avidgamer123** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:04 pm

vitamin wrote:
avidgamer123 wrote:ok. so I did the whole thing to get Zune
You can stop right there. Wine does not work with any hardware directly. You'll have to use virtual machine or separate partition.

so that means whats...? I thought I followed exactly what the FACs said to get programs into wine?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:12 pm

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:04 AM, avidgamer123
<[email protected]> wrote:

vitamin wrote:
avidgamer123 wrote:
ok. so I did the whole thing to get Zune
You can stop right there. Wine does not work with any hardware directly. You'll have to use virtual machine or separate partition.
so that means whats...? I thought I followed exactly what the FACs said to get programs into wine?

You did. The problem is wine doesn't really support hardware drivers
(aside from a few for software protections like safedisc).

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-Austin

avidgamer123 · Post by **avidgamer123** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:28 pm

so theres no way I can use zune on ubuntu with wine? It said on wine hq that zune was one of the applications that would work with it? it thought...

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Mon Feb 23, 2009 12:40 pm

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:28 AM, avidgamer123
<[email protected]> wrote:

so theres no way I can use zune on ubuntu with wine? It said on wine hq that zune was one of the applications that would work with it? it thought...

Not for the time being at least.

Where did you see that?

AppDB says otherwise:
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.p ... n&iId=5741

Does it not work in native applications, e.g., Rythmbox?
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-Austin