Wine doesn't work on FC9

rich16870 · Post by **rich16870** » Fri May 30, 2008 12:45 pm

I recently upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. Wine-0.9.58 was included. When I tried to run an already installed app, nothing happened. Wine configuration didn't run either. I examined the shell scripts in /usr/bin and found that winecfg, wineconsole, winedbg, winefile, and winemine all contained the same scripts, starting with "Wrapper script to start a Winelib application once it is installed". I tried uninstalling and reinstalling wine using both the add/remove software function and yum. I tried installing wine-1.0 and wine-0.9.60, but they wouldn't compile (failed with a segmentation fault). Has anybody else had problems with wine on FC9, and if so, did you get it to run, and if so, how?

Zac Brown · Post by **Zac Brown** » Fri May 30, 2008 1:55 pm

Hi,

1) Are you on 64 bit or 32 bit?
- For building wine on 64 bit, see http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
2) Have you tried doing anything with a fresh ~/.wine?

I'd try using the package from Fedora 9 with a fresh ~/.wine first and if that
doesn't work, move on to building from source.

I'm going to install Fedora 9 in VMWare and see I can get Wine to play nicely.

-Zac

rich16870 wrote:

I recently upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. Wine-0.9.58 was included. When I tried to run an already installed app, nothing happened. Wine configuration didn't run either. I examined the shell scripts in /usr/bin and found that winecfg, wineconsole, winedbg, winefile, and winemine all contained the same scripts, starting with "Wrapper script to start a Winelib application once it is installed". I tried uninstalling and reinstalling wine using both the add/remove software function and yum. I tried installing wine-1.0 and wine-0.9.60, but they wouldn't compile (failed with a segmentation fault). Has anybody else had problems with wine on FC9, and if so, did you get it to run, and if so, how?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:05 pm

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:42 PM, Zac Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi,

1) Are you on 64 bit or 32 bit?
- For building wine on 64 bit, see http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
2) Have you tried doing anything with a fresh ~/.wine?

I'd try using the package from Fedora 9 with a fresh ~/.wine first and if
that doesn't work, move on to building from source.

I'm going to install Fedora 9 in VMWare and see I can get Wine to play
nicely.

-Zac

rich16870 wrote:
I recently upgraded from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. Wine-0.9.58 was included.
When I tried to run an already installed app, nothing happened. Wine
configuration didn't run either. I examined the shell scripts in /usr/bin
and found that winecfg, wineconsole, winedbg, winefile, and winemine all
contained the same scripts, starting with "Wrapper script to start a Winelib
application once it is installed". I tried uninstalling and reinstalling
wine using both the add/remove software function and yum. I tried
installing wine-1.0 and wine-0.9.60, but they wouldn't compile (failed with
a segmentation fault). Has anybody else had problems with wine on FC9, and
if so, did you get it to run, and if so, how?

http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13445

rich16870 · Post by **rich16870** » Fri May 30, 2008 2:47 pm

Zac,

Thanks for the suggestion. I am running an Intel P4 duo at 3GHZ. I tried deleting the ~/.wine file and, lo and behold, wine configuration ran. So I reinstalled Powerpoint Viewer 2003; it started OK but then wouldn't open a .pps file (not a powerpoint file). I'll keep working on it now that I've gotten it started. I do need to look further into the bug about DOS memory ranges.

As for the bug about wine-1.0-rc2 not compiling on FC9, I'll not worry about that unless I have to, since 0.9.58 looks like it will work. BTW, 0.9.60 didn't compile either.