1603 fatal error / installing games

[Wyteke]

I've had Wine now for a while only to open small things for that it worked.

But now I wanted to try and install some older games, thought maybe that might work, but not I'm only getting error's and no installs.
The game I'm trying to install at the moment are:
"Rising Kingdoms"
"Sid Meier's Pirates!"


I have been running Linux ubuntu now for a while just because it works faster, though now also missing games which don't really work too good on Linux Ubuntu, but that's probably because I don't know that much about terminal codes etc.

running:
Ubuntu 12.04
Wine 1.4
Intel® Pentium(R) Dual CPU T2370 @ 1.73GHz × 2
Intel® 965GM x86/MMX/SSE2


Anyone can help me?

[dimesio]

Read the sticky at the top of the forum about Ubuntu 12.04, upgrade to the latest development release of Wine, and check the AppDB for information on the games you are trying to run. If you still have problems in current Wine, post terminal output.

[Wyteke]

What is an Terminal output?

PS: you're talking to a noob on Linux area I know just little.

Further on the "sticky: Ubuntu problems" I can't find anything that corresponds with my problems / errors.

I've tried getting Wine to 1.5, but it says it can't find a package.

[dimesio]

To upgrade: http://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu

To get a log: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log

[Wyteke]

I have upgraded now to the new version!!



AppDB info for the game I try to install says:
"I tried to install the game in a new wineprefix but it didn't work. The installation was aborted with error 1603 (is it bug 11537?). So what did I do?

I copied the content of both CDs to my harddisk, started the installation via command line from harddisk ("WINEPREFIX=~/path/to/my/.prefix wine /path/to/setup/Setup.exe") and figured out that it worked somehow."

Is also something I can't do since it errors out when I try to copy the content to my harddisk.



I tried to do wine start and then I got an CMD for wine, but then the path was already filled out and the things I try to open is from a CD so I can't reach that.

This is from running it via the normal terminal:

wyteke@wyteke-Satellite-L350:~$ wine start /
bin/ etc/ media/ root/ srv/ var/
boot/ home/ mnt/ run/ sys/
cdrom/ lib/ opt/ sbin/ tmp/
dev/ lost+found/ proc/ selinux/ usr/

wyteke@wyteke-Satellite-L350:~$ wine start /media/Disc\ 1/
ATR1.EXE directx/ instmsiw.exe support/
autorun.exe instmsia.exe setup.exe

wyteke@wyteke-Satellite-L350:~$ wine start /media/Disc\ 1/autorun.exe err:start:wmain Unknown option 'L"/media/Disc 1/autorun.exe"'
Start a program, or open a document in the program normally used for files with that suffix.
Usage:
start [options] program_filename [...]
start [options] document_filename

Options:
"title" Specifies the title of the child windows.
/d directory Start the program in the specified directory.
/b Don't create a new console for the program.
/i Start the program with fresh environment variables.
/min Start the program minimized.
/max Start the program maximized.
/low Start the program in the idle priority class.
/normal Start the program in the normal priority class.
/high Start the program in the high priority class.
/realtime Start the program in the realtime priority class.
/abovenormal Start the program in the abovenormal priority class.
/belownormal Start the program in the belownormal priority class.
/node n Start the program on the specified NUMA node.
/affinity mask Start the program with the specified affinity mask.
/wait Wait for the started program to finish, then exit with its exit code.
/unix Use a Unix filename and start the file like windows explorer.
/ProgIDOpen Open a document using the specified progID.
/? Display this help and exit.

wyteke@wyteke-Satellite-L350:~$ wine start /media/Disc\ 1/autorun.exe
err:start:wmain Unknown option 'L"/media/Disc 1/autorun.exe"'

[dimesio]

Try running setup.exe rather than autorun.exe, and cd to the directory it's located in first.

[Wyteke]

Same can't even get it to start via Terminals.

[mattig89ch]

I hope I don't get yelled at for this, but I'm bumping this thread.

Wyteke, I find msyelf getting the same error when trying to run an installer. Did you ever fix it?