Quick Question: How to run Winetricks?

Ruingaraf · Post by **Ruingaraf** » Thu May 12, 2011 2:13 pm

All right, I've downloaded Wine and Wine Bottler, created an app with my program, put in the confirmation code for -that-, jumped through a few more hoops because Sony apparently now requires a 20-some character code for confirmation as well as the original key, ran it, and got the usual error message:

Read the FAQ, so now my best best is downloading and running Winetricks. So I downloaded it, but it's a plaintext file. How do I use this? Do I copy + paste it into the command line, and if so, how do I open the command line on MacOSX? (new to this OS as well, haha. I knew how to open it on Windows.)

sorry for my noobish question, orz.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Thu May 12, 2011 4:31 pm

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Ruingaraf <[email protected]> wrote:

All right, I've downloaded Wine and Wine Bottler, created an app with my program, put in the confirmation code for -that-, jumped through a few
more hoops because Sony apparently now requires a 20-some character code for confirmation as well as the original key, ran it, and got the
usual error message:

Read the FAQ, so now my best best is downloading and running Winetricks. So I downloaded it, but it's a plaintext file. How do I use this? Do I
copy + paste it into the command line, and if so, how do I open the command line on MacOSX? (new to this OS as well, haha. I knew how to
open it on Windows.)

Not a problem here.

Where did you put the Winetricks file (downloads I presume and this is
the assumption I'm using here)
1. Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
2. cd Downloads
3. chmod +x winetricks
4. winetricks --help (or if you know the name of the module you want
to install winetricks <name of module>

This will run the help menu or install the module to the default $HOME/.wine

James McKenzie

Ruingaraf · Post by **Ruingaraf** » Fri May 13, 2011 10:03 am

jjmckenzie wrote: Where did you put the Winetricks file (downloads I presume and this is
the assumption I'm using here)
1. Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
2. cd Downloads
3. chmod +x winetricks
4. winetricks --help (or if you know the name of the module you want
to install winetricks <name of module>

This will run the help menu or install the module to the default $HOME/.wine

James McKenzie

Desktop, but I moved it to downloads so we're on the same page. I got the following:

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Last login: Fri May 13 10:54:19 on ttys000
(name)s-iMac:~ Name$ cd downloads
(name)s-iMac:downloads Name$ chmod +x winetricks 
(name)s-iMac:downloads name$

It doesn't reject the command, but it doesn't do anything, either. Once again, forgive me, I'm not a programmer. Then, I tried to open it again and got the following:

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Last login: Fri May 13 11:00:43 on ttys000
(name)s-iMac:~ Kay$ /Users/(name)/Downloads/winetricks ; exit;
/Users/(name)/Downloads/winetricks: line 2910: wine: command not found
------------------------------------------------------
wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string
------------------------------------------------------
logout

[Process completed]

When I tried to open the file as a plaintext previously, it said I should be seeing a copyright symbol and I saw something else entirely, so I'm not sure if that means anything.

Thanks once again for your help, and sorry for being troublesome! I appreciate all the work you guys put into this software.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Fri May 13, 2011 10:09 am

Code:
Last login: Fri May 13 10:54:19 on ttys000
(name)s-iMac:~ Name$ cd downloads
(name)s-iMac:downloads Name$ chmod +x winetricks
(name)s-iMac:downloads name$

It doesn't reject the command, but it doesn't do anything, either.

That command is supposed to mark the file executable. Not to execute
the command.

Once again, forgive me, I'm not a programmer. Then, I tried to open it again and got the following:

You really do not need to be a programmer to understand this. But you
do have to have some idea on how to use the shell.

To run your application. cd to the folder you downloaded the program
and type ./winetricks

Or execute it from your file browser.

John

Post by **DanKegel** » Fri May 13, 2011 11:49 am

people who use third party wine distributions like winebottler
should normally ask the third party for support.
But winebottler looks kind of sleepy, it hasn't been updated
for a year and a half.
Maybe you should consider http://wineskin.doh123.com
it seems more active.