Wine 1.6.2 and java 6+

[Dramegno]

Okay I am running wine 1.6.2 on Kali linux and I believe I got wine installed correctly but I am havving issues installing Java in wine.

The reason why I am needing java is so I can play The Temple of Elemental Evil with a popular mod/fixpack call Circle of Eight and the launcher for the installer requires java. I can get the vinilla game to install and run with out much issue but as I said the problem is in the java.

I have tried the offline installer of java 8 (jre-8u25-windows-i586.exe) but it tries to run then nothing absolutly nothing, no error message popup or any debug info what so ever in the terminal window when ran thru it.

I have also tried java 7 offline installer (jre-7u71-windows-i586.exe) and it opens up just fine but it fails every single time sans 1 when the status bar of the installer switches to says "Installing Java..." it suddenly says that the instalation has failed/interupted.

I have attempted a number of times with new 32 bit prefixes as well and the same thing happens. well I manged to get it installed once but then I ended up deleting the wrong prefix...

here is the terminal script:

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dralin@debian:~/Downloads$  WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine00 wine jre-8u25-windows-i586.exe 
dralin@debian:~/Downloads$ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine00 wine jre-7u71-windows-i586.exe 
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:wininet:InternetLockRequestFile STUB
fixme:storage:create_storagefile Storage share mode not implemented.
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation (nil) 1 (nil) 0
err:ole:CoFreeUnusedLibrariesEx apartment not initialised
err:msi:custom_get_thread_return Invalid Return Code 1627
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"InstallJava" returned 1603
err:msi:ITERATE_Actions Execution halted, action L"ExecuteAction" returned 1603
fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00004000
err:rpc:I_RpcGetBuffer no binding
dralin@debian:~/Downloads$ wine --version
wine-1.6.2

any help would be apprecated, thank you.

[dimesio]

Your Wine version is old; try the latest development release.

[Dramegno]

I am in the process of trying to install wine version 1.7.15-0.1_i386 but I am hitting a brick wall i need some dependecies that is not in my sources list where would I need to go get them? here is the snipbit from me running dpkg:
[codedpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libwine-unstable:i386:
libwine-unstable:i386 depends on libc6 (>= 2.17); however:
Version of libc6:i386 on system is 2.13-38+deb7u6.
libwine-unstable:i386 depends on libgphoto2-6 (>= 2.5.2); however:
Package libgphoto2-6 is not installed.
libwine-unstable:i386 depends on libgphoto2-port10 (>= 2.5.2); however:
Package libgphoto2-port10 is not installed.
libwine-unstable:i386 depends on libxml2 (>= 2.9.0); however:
Version of libxml2:i386 on system is 2.8.0+dfsg1-7+wheezy2.
[/code]

Also even though Kali is debian based the os is very touchy so adding repositories is not a good idea on my end to do, so I would need to find the sorces for the packeges and build them myself...

[dimesio]

1.7.15 is also outdated; the current development release is 1.7.33.

As to where to find Wine's dependencies, ask on your distro's support forum.