Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2004 21:48 schrieb Scott F. Kiesling: > 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? I don't have a winedefaults.reg too (wineversion 20040716). But I think this is some kind of path issue in your wine config. can you post some more infos (i.e. wine version, shell output of wine when starting regedit)? > > 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 _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users