Wine not responding on SLES

[rkp]

I installed wine 1.5.25-226.1 on sles 11 sp2 recently but the wine is not responding.

During any window based software installation when I right click on an exe and select "open using wine..." then it does not open wine installer.
Also the default notepad coming with wine is not opening.
Wine details:

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# rpm -qa | grep wine
wine-32bit-1.5.25-226.1
wine-mono-0.0.8-1.1
wine-gecko-1.9-32.1
wine-snapshot-32bit-1.4.rc4.20120218-1.1
wine-doors-0.1.3-1.1
wine-1.5.25-226.1

How to get wine functional and working?

[dimesio]

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# rpm -qa | grep wine
wine-32bit-1.5.25-226.1
wine-mono-0.0.8-1.1
wine-gecko-1.9-32.1
wine-snapshot-32bit-1.4.rc4.20120218-1.1
wine-doors-0.1.3-1.1
wine-1.5.25-226.1

I'm not sure how you managed to do it, because YaST should have prevented it, but you have two different versions of Wine installed. Uninstall wine-snapshot-32bit-1.4.rc4.20120218-1.1.

[rkp]

Thanks dimesio for the reply.
I will try to uninstall it.
Btw to install wine I added http://download.opensuse.org/repositori ... 11/x86_64/ in yast repo.
Then in yast software management I selected randomly the entities listed:
wine-32bit-1.5.25-226.1
wine-mono-0.0.8-1.1
wine-gecko-1.9-32.1
wine-snapshot-32bit-1.4.rc4.20120218-1.1
wine-doors-0.1.3-1.1
wine-1.5.25-226.1

As a new user of wine I am not aware of difference between wine-32bit-1.5.25-226.1, wine-mono-0.0.8-1.1, wine-gecko-1.9-32.1, wine-snapshot-32bit-1.4.rc4.20120218-1.1 and wine-1.5.25-226.1.

What is the difference between them?

[dimesio]

That's the right repository.

The snapshot file is a daily snapshot of git that is installed instead of the regular biweekly releases, not alongside them. YaST should have given you a warning about the conflict when you selected both the regular packages and the snapshot. (Did you get one and choose to install anyway?) Also, that snapshot package is very old, so I don't know why it's still in the repository. You might want to contact the package maintainer about that.

As for the other packages, wine-gecko is needed for html rendering and wine-mono provides some .NET compatibility; both are needed. Wine-doors is a third party wrapper that is not supported here, and AFAIK, hasn't worked with Wine in a very long time and is a dead project, so you should probably uninstall that as well.

[rkp]

Ok thanks I will do as suggested and update.

[rkp]

I tried uninstalling the snapshot but it does not help and wine still does not respond.
None of the entities in Wine menu like Configure Wine responds.
Any way out of this issue?

[rkp]

Following are some output:
# wine notepad
wine: could not exec wineserver

# which wineserver
which: no wineserver in (/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin...)

linux-e30c:~ # wineserver
If 'wineserver' is not a typo you can run the following command to lookup the package that contains the binary:
command-not-found wineserver
-bash: wineserver: command not found

linux-e30c:~ # winecfg
If 'winecfg' is not a typo you can run the following command to lookup the package that contains the binary:
command-not-found winecfg
-bash: winecfg: command not found

[rkp]

Finally I was able to install wine and the issue seems resolved.

I had tried reinstallation after removing wine completely but even that was not working.
Tried wine and wine 32 bit and still no success.
So finally I uninstalled wine, then as said in http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get- ... rking.html removed the folder ~/.wine and reinstalled wine and now notepad got opened both from wine menu and from command prompt(wine notepad).