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Jeromek
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Football Manager Live with Wine

Post by Jeromek »

Hi !

First of all I have to advise you that I don't speak english as well as I whish. So, be lenient.

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop one month ago. I didn't make any changes, I used it with default settings. I managed to install Football Manager Live (FML) and it worked perfectly ! I installed wine (by apt-get - didn't make any changes either) and then ran the setup.exe from the official site.

One week ago, I downloaded and installed on my laptop Windows 7 RC. FML worked perfectly too on this operating system but I realized that Windows 7 is a monster. Louder than Vista...
So, I decided to reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 ! Once again, I didn't make any changes and try to install FML exactly the same way. But this time, it doesn't work at all and I didn't manage to understand why ! I have an error message "Unable to connect to the Football Manager Live auto download server. Please check your internet connection".

I read a lot to understand where the problem could be from.
I installed firefox.exe and installed it with wine to check if wine was unable to connect to internet. But I was able to surf on the net from firefox using wine.
I disabled the firewall (iptables -F). Doesn't work.
I downloaded winetricks and installed all (dotnet, directx, ...). Doesn't work.
I read somewhere that it could be a problem of port forwarding but I don't think that's my problem. I tried in two different place (at home/at work). And it worked at home one week ago ! I haven't change my router setting since then.
I also tried to install older version of wine. Same result.. Doesn't work.

So.. I'm really running out of options !
If anyone have an idea that could help.. Please, tell me.
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Football Manager Live with Wine

Post by austin987 »

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Jeromek <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi !

First of all I have to advise you that I don't speak english as well as I whish. So, be lenient.

I installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop one month ago. I didn't make any changes, I used it with default settings. I managed to install Football Manager Live (FML) and it worked perfectly ! I installed wine (by apt-get - didn't make any changes either) and then ran the setup.exe from the official site.

One week ago, I downloaded and installed on my laptop Windows 7 RC. FML worked perfectly too on this operating system but I realized that Windows 7 is a monster. Louder than Vista...
So, I decided to reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 ! Once again, I didn't make any changes and try to install FML exactly the same way. But this time, it doesn't work at all and I didn't manage to understand why ! I have an error message "Unable to connect to the Football Manager Live auto download server. Please check your internet connection".

I read a lot to understand where the problem could be from.
I installed firefox.exe and installed it with wine to check if wine was unable to connect to internet. But I was able to surf on the net from firefox using wine.
I disabled the firewall (iptables -F). Doesn't work.
I downloaded winetricks and installed all (dotnet, directx, ...). Doesn't work.
Please don't do that. Winetricks isn't meant to be used as a wide
sweeping measure, but only piece by piece, for what you need.

That said, does 'winetricks wininet' help? Can you post the terminal output?

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-Austin
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Post by Jeromek »

I made a new install of Ubuntu cause I tried lots of things and made some mistakes.. :?
So, I've just installed winetricks for 10 minutes.

The result of the winetricks wininet :
jeromek@bubutu-laptop:~$ winetricks wininet
Executing cabextract --directory=/home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp /home/jeromek/.winetrickscache/3725.exe
Extracting cabinet: /home/jeromek/.winetrickscache/3725.exe
extracting /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/3725.inf
extracting /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/prebind.exe
extracting /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/verinst.exe
extracting /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/Wininet.dll
extracting /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/ADVPACK.DLL
extracting /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/W95INF32.DLL
extracting /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/W95INF16.DLL

All done, no errors.
Executing cp -f /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/Wininet.dll /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32/wininet.dll
Using native,builtin override for following DLLs: wininet
Executing wine regedit /home/jeromek/.wine/drive_c/winetrickstmp/override-dll.reg
Install of wininet done
winetricks done.
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