Clarification required, wine not working

tropdoug · Post by **tropdoug** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 8:39 pm

Hi guys,

I have recently started using Gutsy gibbon, (2 wks) and have installed wine via synaptic. everything went ok. I read the instructions on the wiki in regard of loading windows programs. I want to run Compupic photodex ProShow Gold, which according to the appdb should run. So I copied the pro show Gold Zip and the Photodex presenter folder from my downloaded programs folder on my windows HD and placed it into a new folder I made at /home/windows+programs/ on my ubuntu drive.

Then I unpacked the zip, using archive manager, I then copied the .exe file to the home/.wine/ dir right clicked the exe, and asked to open with wine. The installation screens appeared and all went well. on completion a dialog stated that I needed to install Arial tru type font. So I did that via synaptic again.

I then used the wine menu to start the program. I get the splash screen and then nothing else.

I have also tried via the terminal with the same result. Obviously I have done something wrong. Any guidance anyone?

Dan Kegel · Post by **Dan Kegel** » Thu Apr 17, 2008 9:32 pm

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:39 PM, tropdoug <[email protected]> wrote:

I have recently started using Gutsy gibbon, (2 wks) and have
installed wine via synaptic....
I want to run Compupic photodex ProShow Gold, which according
to the appdb should run.

So I just tried it, and it looks like it broke in wine-0.9.53, probably
when we changed our services support to be more realistic.
Try installing wine-0.9.52 from the winehq ubuntu package archive,
http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/index.html
You should have better luck.
- Dan

tropdoug · Post by **tropdoug** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:03 am

Thanks Dan, I will do that and let you know the result.

Doug