copy of the .wine directory

[LadGalen]

Hi all

I install fedora 15 on my new computer. Before I was under ubuntu 11.04. I install wine from fedora 15 repository and before doing anything with wine I copy my .wine directory into my new home directory.

All programs do not work correctly and I get the following error message :

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wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"

Nevertheless I have wineboot :

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> locate wineboot
/home/lad/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/wineboot.exe
/usr/bin/wineboot
/usr/lib/wine/fakedlls/wineboot.exe
/usr/lib64/wine/wineboot.exe.so
/usr/lib64/wine/fakedlls/wineboot.exe
/usr/share/applications/fedora-wine-wineboot.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/wineboot.1.gz

Have I to do something else ? How can I fix that ?

[Martin Gregorie]

On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 07:51 -0500, LadGalen wrote:

Hi all

I install fedora 15 on my new computer. Before I was under ubuntu
11.04. I install wine from fedora 15 repository and before doing
anything with wine I copy my .wine directory into my new home
directory.

How did you do the copy?
Have you checked that the file ownership and permissions are correct for
the new user?

All programs do not work correctly and I get the following error message :

Code:

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"



Nevertheless I have wineboot :

Is $PATH set correctly in the new user and does it match default
software locations for Fedora 15?

Bear in mind that the filing system differs between Debian-based distros
(such as Ubuntu) and RedHat distros, e.g. Fedora, and that this may mean
that search paths copied from one to the other may not work correctly.


Martin

[DaVince]

Have you tried if Wine works with a different prefix?

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WINEPREFIX=~/.winetest winecfg

If that launches, the old prefix you copied over from Ubuntu has somehow become corrupt. I went from Ubuntu to Fedora installs without any issues, so I wonder what went wrong.

[LadGalen]

I deleted my .wine, next I run winecfg in order to create .wine directory and then I just copy paste the program files directory from my old ubuntu .wine directory into the new fedora .wine directory.

The error message

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\wineboot.exe"

deasapear.

But warcraft 3 still not work. Without opengl it is too slow (very slow, unplayable) and there is a lot of line such as :

err:d3d:loadVertexData >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> GL_INVALID_ENUM (0x500) from glVertexPointer(...) @ state.c / 4346

with -opengl option the speed seems to be good but all button are transparent. Thus I will reinstall it.

What is the best procedure about wine when you change your computer ? Do you must install all program you had on your old computer ?

Thanks for your help

[Martin Gregorie]

What is the best procedure about wine when you change your computer ?
Do you must install all program you had on your old computer ?

Review the list of programs/packaged you previously installed.
Change package names etc as needed to suit the new distro.
Install them.

Whenever I install a new version of Fedora I do a clean install. I
maintain a script that pulls in all the packages I need. See the
following for tips:

http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/lin ... tware.html
http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/lin ... rades.html

Bear in mind that Red Hat have a much more purist attitude to installing
proprietary and non-open-source code than Ubuntu. This means that a
Fedora distro doesn't include closed source codecs and programs, e.g.
Flash. You can run them, but you'll have to find and install them since
they aren't included in the Fedora repo. Many are available from the
third party RPMfusion and atrpms repositories. Both have instructions
for adding them to the list of repos that yum searches.

Martin