I tried all of the suggestions. Upgrading gives the same error. Changing the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps, but now it just tells me 'winedefaults.reg' is not found. It appears I don't have a'winedefault.reg'. Anywhere. I sort of thought running regedit would create. How do I get it? BTW, the distro is Gentoo and I'm using a Gentoo package (ebuild). SFK On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 at 5:21pm, the following was brought forth by Stefan Munz: > Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2004 18:27 schrieb Scott F. Kiesling: > > I just starting using wine; I mostly need it to run Excel, which is what I > > run when I get this warning: > > > > ERROR: You need to merge the 'winedefault.reg' file into your > > Wine registry by running: `regedit winedefault.reg' > > > > Excel starts and seems to run OK, apart from not being able to save, which > > is another problem for another post. > > > > OK, so I do as I am told, and then get the following error: > > > > /usr/lib/wine/bin/wine: error while loading shared libraries: > > libwine.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > > I have libwine.so.1; do I need to change its permissions or something? > > as far as I know you get this error if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set correctly. > try running wine with: > > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/whereYouInstalledWINE/lib wine regedit > > then it should work. but I'm confused, that wine can start excel when you get > the above error running regedit :-? > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users > -- Scott F. Kiesling Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University of Pittsburgh 2816 Cathedral of Learning Phone: 1-412-624-5916 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Fax: 1-412-624-6130 kiesling@xxxxxxxx http://www.pitt.edu/~kiesling/skpage.html http://www.linguistics.pitt.edu _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
