Roots magic will no longer run in wine

[Emegra]

Hi everyone I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this as I'm not sure, if this is a wine problem or a Linux /Gnome problem, but since converting to Linux about 3 months ago I've only used wine for 1 windows program that I need which is Roots Magic a genealogy program, it used to work fine and was fully functional but now suddenly it wont open up when I click to open it flashes up for 2 or 3 seconds then just vanishes from the screen the problem seemed to start just after I installed cinnamon but I've tried it in Gnome and Gnome Classic with the same results so that might be a red herring, any advice on what direction I should go in to try to find the problem would be appreciated.

Many Thanks
Graeme

[dimesio]

Hi everyone I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this as I'm not sure, if this is a wine problem or a Linux /Gnome problem, but since converting to Linux about 3 months ago I've only used wine for 1 windows program that I need which is Roots Magic a genealogy program, it used to work fine and was fully functional but now suddenly it wont open up when I click to open it flashes up for 2 or 3 seconds then just vanishes from the screen the problem seemed to start just after I installed cinnamon but I've tried it in Gnome and Gnome Classic with the same results so that might be a red herring, any advice on what direction I should go in to try to find the problem would be appreciated.

What version of Wine? If it's not the latest development release, upgrade. If it doesn't work in the latest development release, post terminal output.

[Emegra]

Hi dimesio thanks for your help, my version is 1.3.28, I'm not sure if this is the latest release I only know the program worked fine with it before. but if you feel I need to update can you tell me how I go about doing that I'm fairly new to Linux and wine generally, also I tried running the program from the terminal but no variation of the program name will work I just get command not found so I'm unable to give you anoutput

Many Thanks
Graeme

[dimesio]

Hi dimesio thanks for your help, my version is 1.3.28, I'm not sure if this is the latest release I only know the program worked fine with it before. but if you feel I need to update can you tell me how I go about doing that I'm fairly new to Linux and wine generally, also I tried running the program from the terminal but no variation of the program name will work I just get command not found so I'm unable to give you anoutput

The current version is 1.4-rc4. How you would get it depends on your distro. http://www.winehq.org/download/

Follow these instructions to run the app from a terminal: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_from_terminal

If the output is short, just copy and paste it here; if it's long. use a site like pastebin and post a link.

[Emegra]

Hi Dimesio thanks again for you help I followed the instructions from the link but the closest version I could get from the Ubuntu option was 1.3 beta anyway I went with that and added the ppa to my software sources, then when I clicked on the link to install i get a page that says "the address type is unknown or unsupported" apt://wine1.3 so again I'm not sure what to do from there, I'm still trying to run the app from the terminal without success, the path is .wine/dosdevices/c/Program Files/RootsMagic 4/RootsMagic.exe, here's the output
graeme@graeme-PC ~ $ cd .wine
graeme@graeme-PC ~/.wine $ .wine/dosdevices/c/Program Files/RootsMagic 4/RootsMagic.exe
bash: .wine/dosdevices/c/Program: No such file or directory
graeme@graeme-PC ~/.wine $.

Obviously I'm doing something wrong but it's getting late so I'll try again tomorrow, hopefully I can still rely on your help, thanks for your help and patience so far.

Many Thanks

Graeme

[dimesio]

Hi Dimesio thanks again for you help I followed the instructions from the link but the closest version I could get from the Ubuntu option was 1.3 beta anyway I went with that and added the ppa to my software sources, then when I clicked on the link to install i get a page that says "the address type is unknown or unsupported" apt://wine1.3 so again I'm not sure what to do from there,

You'll have to ask about that on the Ubuntu forum; that's a package manager issue (and I don't use Ubuntu).

graeme@graeme-PC ~ $ cd .wine
graeme@graeme-PC ~/.wine $ .wine/dosdevices/c/Program Files/RootsMagic 4/RootsMagic.exe
bash: .wine/dosdevices/c/Program: No such file or directory
graeme@graeme-PC ~/.wine $.

Try:

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cd '.wine/drive_c/Program Files/RootsMagic 4'
wine RootsMagic.exe

[DanKegel]

I tried the free demo,
http://www.rootsmagic.com/Try/RootsMagic/default.aspx
Starts fine, no winetricks needed.

As dimesio pointed out, you forgot to actually run wine, and
you tried to use a space without quotes in a commandline argument.
Her suggested commandline will probably do the trick.

[Emegra]

Hi Dimesio & Dan thanks for your help I used the command in the terminal as you suggested and I've posted it here http://pastebin.com/SdrbU9rS, hope this helps

Many Thanks
Graeme

[Emegra]

Hi again than pastebin link didn't seem to work try this one http://pastebin.com/CgvnfCcn

Many Thanks

Graeme

[Emegra]

Hi again,
Although I was unable to update wine last night the update showed up in the update manager this morning and now it's working fine after updating to v4, your help is much appreciated

Many Thanks

Graeme