Hello,
So installed Fedora15. No problem, wish it had regular menus but the steamline effect isn't totally terrible.
Heard that Guild Wars1 is playable in linux and so installed wine. It seems that you aren't supposed to install as root so I removed it as root. I then try to install anything via yum as non-root and I get the error of needing to be root. So, I read that you can bypass this by doing a local download and compile at the user level.
Downloaded the .tar for wine-1.5.2 and tried to ./configure and then make but I am getting this error "configure: error: Cannot build a 32-bit program, you need to install 32-bit development libraries.". I have since tried to download various GCC libraries and have not succeeded.
I actually got GW1 to start under the root installed wine. But, it had no text or sound on the login screen. Now, it won't even launch the game. Wine starts up then then the process kills itself.
HELP! I am going backwards! lol
Thanks in advance.
Oh yea my specs:
Dual Boot: Fedora15-2.6.43.2-6.fc15.x86_64 / Win7
Processor: F15 says i3 / Win7 says i5
RAM: 6gb
GPU: ATI HD5740
Been at it all day ... finally have to ask for help!
Also found that disabling the GLSL registry key would probably fix the problem that I encountered with during the root use installed wine-1.5.2. But my regustry did not have a Direct3D folder at all so when I created one I wasn't really sure what to do as there was not a GLSL option to change.
I would like to get Guild Wars1 running as I am in the GW2 beta and hope to run the new game in linux as well.
Recap:
Installed Fedora15
Updated and installed wine via YUM
Launched GW1 but with no text or sound at login screen
Found no proper way to EDIT the registry as it didn't exist
Created Direct3D and GLSL registry folders but no key to edit
Uninstalled wine as root user for safety reasons
Downloaded wine-1.5.2.tar.bz2 and extracted to winetemp directory
Attempted to ./configure tar file and got 32-bit error
Downloaded various GCC libs but can't get it to ./configure so I can then make
Can launch wine in normal user acct but process terminates on its own
HELP!
Thanks in advance!
I would like to get Guild Wars1 running as I am in the GW2 beta and hope to run the new game in linux as well.
Recap:
Installed Fedora15
Updated and installed wine via YUM
Launched GW1 but with no text or sound at login screen
Found no proper way to EDIT the registry as it didn't exist
Created Direct3D and GLSL registry folders but no key to edit
Uninstalled wine as root user for safety reasons
Downloaded wine-1.5.2.tar.bz2 and extracted to winetemp directory
Attempted to ./configure tar file and got 32-bit error
Downloaded various GCC libs but can't get it to ./configure so I can then make
Can launch wine in normal user acct but process terminates on its own
HELP!
Thanks in advance!
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Martin Gregorie
Been at it all day ... finally have to ask for help!
On Fri, 2012-05-04 at 00:01 -0500, Bronloch wrote:
- IMO Fedora 16 is a huge advance over F15. If like many of us, you
don't like Gnome 3, do a custom install and install XFCE instead or in
addition to Gnome 3. If you follow what I do, documented here:
http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/lin ... rades.html
future upgrades will be a lot easier.
Note that F17 is just over the horizon.
- Installing Wine via yum is the way to go. You always do yum installs
and upgrades as root or via sudo. However although you *install*
Wine as root, you always *run* Wine as a normal user.
- Install GW1 via Wine, run as a normal user. If you can't access the
optical drive, change its access permissions so you can access it.
This has been discussed on the Wine users list. Search the archive for
information on how to do it. Don't dumbly run Wine app installs as
root because that will NOT do what you want.
- Edit the registry under Wine by using Wine's regedit tool
- Edit GLSL as above.
- You shouldn't need to compile Wine yourself: Fedora is generally
no more that 2 development releases behind WineHQ.
HTH
Martin
Point by pointAlso found that disabling the GLSL registry key would probably fix the problem that I encountered with during the root use installed wine-1.5.2. But my regustry did not have a Direct3D folder at all so when I created one I wasn't really sure what to do as there was not a GLSL option to change.
I would like to get Guild Wars1 running as I am in the GW2 beta and hope to run the new game in linux as well.
Recap:
Installed Fedora15
Updated and installed wine via YUM
Launched GW1 but with no text or sound at login screen
Found no proper way to EDIT the registry as it didn't exist
Created Direct3D and GLSL registry folders but no key to edit
Uninstalled wine as root user for safety reasons
Downloaded wine-1.5.2.tar.bz2 and extracted to winetemp directory
Attempted to ./configure tar file and got 32-bit error
Downloaded various GCC libs but can't get it to ./configure so I can then make
Can launch wine in normal user acct but process terminates on its own
HELP!
- IMO Fedora 16 is a huge advance over F15. If like many of us, you
don't like Gnome 3, do a custom install and install XFCE instead or in
addition to Gnome 3. If you follow what I do, documented here:
http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/lin ... rades.html
future upgrades will be a lot easier.
Note that F17 is just over the horizon.
- Installing Wine via yum is the way to go. You always do yum installs
and upgrades as root or via sudo. However although you *install*
Wine as root, you always *run* Wine as a normal user.
- Install GW1 via Wine, run as a normal user. If you can't access the
optical drive, change its access permissions so you can access it.
This has been discussed on the Wine users list. Search the archive for
information on how to do it. Don't dumbly run Wine app installs as
root because that will NOT do what you want.
- Edit the registry under Wine by using Wine's regedit tool
- Edit GLSL as above.
- You shouldn't need to compile Wine yourself: Fedora is generally
no more that 2 development releases behind WineHQ.
HTH
Martin
Re: Been at it all day ... finally have to ask for help!
Install gcc-multilib, that should solve this problem.
