Trying to add a wine application I've added in other Ubuntu

Swarup · Post by **Swarup** » Sat May 16, 2009 7:39 pm

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty in a Dell M6400 laptop. I have a collection of electronic books with an index and search program to run searches on them. This is a Windows-based text-index and search utility, and I have installed it successfully using WINE in many earlier versions of Ubuntu as well as in another computer running Jaunty. But in my DELL M6400 when I installed it, initially it wouldn't install because it was trying to install it back onto the CD itself which of course it had no permission to do (the CD was not rewritable). So I reset the target location for the install, to my home directory. It then installed fine. And the program opens fine as well, and appears completely normal. But I cannot type anything in the search window, nor can I run any searches. The program just sits there looking beautiful, but won't do anything. I've never come across this before.

How can I trouble-shoot this, so as to get the program working?

Swarup · Post by **Swarup** » Sat May 16, 2009 7:50 pm

Well someone on the Ubuntu support forum solved the problem. My app is working now. For anyone interested, here is the solution:

sudo wget http://winezeug.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin
sudo chmod 777 /usr/bin/winetricks
winetricks allfonts fontfix

Swarup · Post by **Swarup** » Sat May 16, 2009 8:02 pm

Well, I don't know if that was the solution or not. I closed the program and reopened it, and again it is not working. I have to add that initially, after installing Winetricks and then opening my app, it did not work. But there is an option in the app for "check for online update". It is of course an update for the Windows application, but out of desperation, I tried clicking on it. It actually did a download (showing a download progress bar and everything), and then at the end of the download announced, very strangely, that it "could not connect to the website". And it did not seem that any download/update was ultimately installed. But despite the apparently failed update attempt, the program started to work! I assumed it to be not due to the failed update attempt, but rather to Winetricks. So I closed the app and reopened it to see if it would work. It again would not allow me to type in the search window! I again tried the online update. Again it did the download, and then announced it could not connect to the website. And again, after the failed update the app started working properly. So perhaps every time I want to use this app on this machine, I'll have to open the app and run a failed online update, after which it will work!?!?! How odd. Anyhow, at least I can get it to work.

If anyone has any further suggestion on how to get the app to run without having to run a failed "online update" every time, I'm all ears.

UPDATE: I have realized that I do not need to run the online update every time. All I need to do is open the app, go to help->"about" and let the app announce its version in a little window. Once I do that, then the app starts working. Just a little quirk, I guess. But it only takes a moment to do, and is painless.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat May 16, 2009 10:26 pm

Swarup wrote:

How can I trouble-shoot this, so as to get the program working?

There are literally millions of Windows programs. Please be specific
with the program you are trying to make work with Wine.

Name of application and where can we get it from?

James McKenzie

Swarup · Post by **Swarup** » Sat May 16, 2009 11:51 pm

James McKenzie wrote:Swarup wrote:
How can I trouble-shoot this, so as to get the program working?
Name of application and where can we get it from?

Thanks for your concern. The program is a search utility made for a specific set of yoga texts-- i.e. not necessarily a program of interest or use to the general public, and also not a program I think which is publicly available. And as I say, I've got it working now-- just with the above-noted quirk.