Whereigo builder under Wine

twin_57103 · Post by **twin_57103** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 1:14 pm

After my little netbook took a spill, we were unable to reinstall Windows. No great loss, got Ubuntu 10.10 working, and I'm content, except for one thing: I have one Windows application that I'd like to try to run, and it is a very obscure one.

The Geocaching whereigo builder is available only for Windows (I actually had some headaches getting it to run on my 64-bit Win 7 system). I was able to install Wine and the program without much hassle, but it isn't running, and I don't know where to start troubleshooting.

I searched the forums, and to no surprise, I didn't find anything. When I try to run the program, I get 2 error boxes: "Invalid parameter" and "There is no windows program configured to open this file type." The installer was an .msi file, but opened with the Wine installer OK.

I have a workaround (a Windows system at home and also a web-based alternative builder), but would really like to get this running if possible. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks for reading!

Post by **DanKegel** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:18 pm

Try using wine-1.4, and do 'winetricks dotnet20' before starting the app.
That lets the Builder open here.

I haven't ever used it, so I don't know how to tell if it's really working, though.

twin_57103 · Post by **twin_57103** » Fri Mar 23, 2012 12:03 pm

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried winetricks dotnet20 with my existing Wine installation (no luck), then updated Wine per http://www.noobslab.com/2012/03/install-wine-1.html. I am a little confused by the version numbers - I'm seeing 1.3 and 1.4 used almost interchangeably. In any case, my version is now telling me 1.4.

When I tried the builder after that, I got a message about missing a Gecko package. I tried to update that, but the installer crashed midway. It looks like the package is already installed?

After that (and a reboot for good measure), I'm back to the same errors. I'm sorry if I'm being clueless here - is there anything else I can check? Thanks!

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Sat Mar 24, 2012 10:11 am

twin_57103 wrote:is there anything else I can check?

Repeat all the steps in clean wineprefix. Either remove ~/.wine directory (will remove all installed windows programs) or specify new one with:

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export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-new
winetricks ...
wine ...

twin_57103 · Post by **twin_57103** » Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:49 am

Hi,

I tried exporting wineprefix, repeated winetricks dotnet20, and tried again. Still the same error. Either I am simply too novice a linux user to get this going, or something is missing on my system. I have tried to call the program from the command line but can't quite figure out the syntax. I am using the shortcut under my applications menu.

Thanks for trying to help - I appreciate it. Sorry I'm slow to pick up on the details. I may simply need to do this at home on my Windows system (the netbook is my "coffee-break" computer and often where I get the most done since my evenings tend to get busy).