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initialization error

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Hi there,

I'm a new wine user, so don't know that much about it. I've installed wine through synaptic in Ubuntu, but as soon as I try and install any windows software, I get the following error message:

could not initialize installation C:\windows\temp\GLC9fe.temp path not found

Forgive me if I've missed the answer somewhere, but I've searched and can't find this particular one anywhere.

any ideas would be gratefully accepted.

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Re: initialization error

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pennywhistle wrote:could not initialize installation C:\windows\temp\GLC9fe.temp path not found
What Wine version (wine --version)? Remove ~/.wine directory (rm -rf ~/.wine) and try again. Make sure you always running Wine as a normal user.

What exact program are you trying to install?
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Post by pennywhistle »

Thanks for your reply.

The version is 1.1.32.

I tried doing as you said and got nothing happening at all, except some flashes on the screen as though a window was trying to open up and failing.

The pogram I want to install is Sibelius, version 3, a score writing program. According to the database it should install and, in part, work, but I can't even get it to install.

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Post by vitamin »

pennywhistle wrote:I tried doing as you said and got nothing happening at all, except some flashes on the screen as though a window was trying to open up and failing.
Post complete terminal output of running the install (remove ~/.wine directory first). http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#get_log
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