Slitaz OS. Use Wine with Amazon KindlePC

4042966262 · Post by **4042966262** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:06 pm

I am running Slitaz as OS
how do i get Amazon Kinde to run?
it shows up as a icon on the desktop, however clicking it shows nothing (exceot for a loading cursor which turns to nowmal)
if i ''open with Wine Windows Program Loader'' i get the folowing error
there is no windows program configured to open this file'' what gives?
if i attempt to add it in wine config ''mind you i have no clue what i'm doing''
the box freezes and i have to restart..
can you help me whith this baffleing problem?

nachanon · Post by **nachanon** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:28 am

It's likely that I didn't get much clue from the question,
so, I'm going to give you an very general instruction.

Okay, Did you managed to get Kindle installed already?

If so, running it from the command line might gives more clues about it.
Open the Terminal program.

Then go to the directory that you installed Kindle, with

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cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX"

where Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX is the directory you installed Kindle
(which that would be C:\Program Files\AmazonXXX\XX on Windows)

then, use

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ls

command to show files in that directory
find one that might be the Kindle program (one that ends with ".exe")
then use this command

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wine kindleprogram.exe

where "kindleprogram.exe" is the .exe program that you found in the directory.
And then, see what happens...

Also, I should ask you another question, which wine version do you have?

But, if you didn't get kindle installed in the first place, this might be another story.

4042966262 · Post by **4042966262** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:42 am

i'm already confused.
ok... Wine Version: 1.1.29
in Xterm i typed

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cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX"

note i used the '' '' marks. not sure if suposed to.
Xterm spit out: -sh cd: cant cd to cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program

if its any help i just installed wine from Package manager.

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:53 am

4042966262 wrote:i'm already confused.
ok... Wine Version: 1.1.29

This version is WAY out of date. Is there any chance that you can update to 1.3.23 or 1.3.24?

in Xterm i typed
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cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX"
note i used the '' '' marks. not sure if suposed to.
Xterm spit out: -sh cd: cant cd to cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program

if its any help i just installed wine from Package manager.

In addition can you type in:

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cd $HOME/.wine

or

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ls -l $HOME/.wine

This will check if the .wine file exists.

James

4042966262 · Post by **4042966262** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:16 pm

ok the first code-

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~/.wine$

and the second-  made a long list. im downloading Gimp to upload a screenshot. should i also try to install wine?

tazpkg get-install wine --forced

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jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 2:14 pm

On 7/10/11 11:16 AM, 4042966262 wrote:

ok the first code-
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~/.wine$

and the second- made a long list. im downloading Gimp to upload a screenshot. should i also try to install wine?

You should try to update it to the current development version, 1.3.24.

tazpkg get-install wine --forced

I don't know anything about that particular program, so I am unable to
provide assistance.

James

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Sun Jul 10, 2011 7:13 pm

"4042966262" <[email protected]> wrote:

cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX"

note i used the '' '' marks. not sure if suposed to.
Xterm spit out: -sh cd: cant cd to cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program

IIRC ~ doesn't work inside "". One of these should
work (provided Slitaz is using a "normal" shell):

cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX"

[$ expands within "" -- although not within '']

or

cd ; cd ".wine/drive_c/Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX"

[cd to home directory first, then to its .wine/... subdirectory;
this could also be tried with ' instead of "]

or

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/AmazonXXX/XX

[escape the space with a backslash]

or

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program?Files/AmazonXXX/XX

[the shell should match ? in a filename to any character,
including a blank]

nachanon · Post by **nachanon** » Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:26 am

My mistake, sorry, thanks for reminding,
so the correct one of the first command should be:

cd "$HOME/.wine/Program Files/AmazonXX/XX"
Note: replace AmazonXX/XX with the actual name of KindlePC directory!

4042966262 wrote:i'm already confused.
ok... Wine Version: 1.1.29
in Xterm i typed
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cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/AmazonXXX/XX"
note i used the '' '' marks. not sure if suposed to.
Xterm spit out: -sh cd: cant cd to cd "~/.wine/drive_c/Program

if its any help i just installed wine from Package manager.

Anyway, I'm likely to have an exact instruction for you now:
Open the terminal window, and use the command

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cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon/Kindle"

then use:

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wine Kindle.exe

And now, whether it works or not, it would give the clue we need
and we'll likely to know if you need to update wine.

P.S. The installer I've used in the experiment was KindleForPC-installer.exe version 1.6.0.32771

4042966262 · Post by **4042966262** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:39 am

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cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon/Kindle"

this gave the error
-sh: cd: can't cd to /home/Kimball/.wine/drive_c/program

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:30 pm

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:39 AM, 4042966262 <[email protected]> wrote:

Code:
cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon/Kindle"

this gave the error
-sh: cd: can't cd to /home/Kimball/.wine/drive_c/program

Interesting as the double quotes should work.

Try this instead:

cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Amazon/Kindel

No quotes and yes that is a backslash/backstroke between the word
Program and the space.

James

4042966262 · Post by **4042966262** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:10 pm

that could be the problem!!
i was not useing '' '' marks. let me try again

4042966262 · Post by **4042966262** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 2:14 pm

ok

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cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon/Kindle"

now its waiting for more commands.. what did that do?

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Kimball@CoffeeCup:~S

nachanon · Post by **nachanon** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:07 pm

4042966262 wrote:ok
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cd "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Amazon/Kindle"
now its waiting for more commands.. what did that do?
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Kimball@CoffeeCup:~S

Okay, since there was no error message, then just follow what I said earlier:

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wine Kindle.exe

This will run the Kindle program.
And now, whether it works or not, it would give us the clue.

Note: when posting anything that involves terminal output, you'd better copy and paste it into the forum, don't retype,
since it would introduce some typos, making it harder to figure out what's going on.

4042966262 · Post by **4042966262** » Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:39 pm

its a bit late, I will try these codes tomorrow.
my problem may no longer exist as I swapped OS
now running Ubuntu 10.10 ...ill leave a reply soon