John Bailo schreef: > > Thanks Holly. You're welcome. > I guess the main problem was that I had a kind of psychic block because > I have not used wine much, and I thought it just runs programs on > another Windows partition. I couldn't imagine that you can /install/ > programs with it! Wine wouldn't be much use in helping one *switch* to Linux, then, would it... if you still had to always have Windows available to install programs, why would you-- or how could you, more correctly said-- be considered to have switched (and what would be the point)? Or do you expect to be condemned to dual-boot forever :-D ? Trust me, you're not, not by a long shot :) . Holly > > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> John Bailo schreef: >> >> >>> I am trying to make Rhapsody (the Real Networks music >>> service) to run under wine. >>> >>> This guy, AmishGeek, says he got it to work: >>> >>> http://www.amishgeek.com/info/rhapsody >>> >>> But I don't quite understand all his instructions...and I tried >>> sending him >>> an email but his email box was full. I don't understand the parts >>> about >>> installing windows media ( my machine is dual boot XP, Suse 9.3 ). >>> Does he want me to install it under the XP partition or Suse? >>> >> >> >> SuSE, of course. If you read more carefully, you will see that AmishGuy >> has two computers, one at home (XP) and one at university/work (SuSE), >> so there is no way that the suggestion to install IE and Windows Media >> Player could relate to XP, because there is no XP on the SuSE machine >> (it's not a dual-boot machine). >> >> Secondly, you are already attempting to install a Windows program >> (Rhapsody) under Wine, so it surprises me that you would be confused by >> advice to install other programs under Wine first. You've installed >> Rhapsody to SuSE without reference to your XP partition, right? So why >> would your XP partition suddenly be relevant when attempting to install >> these dependencies? >> >> Apparently, the functioning of Rhapsody depends on two other programs >> (IE and WMP 7.1). So these programs must be installed by Wine in order >> for your install of Rhapsody to recognize them and function correctly. >> What possible good would it do Wine to install them to the XP partition >> (especially since they're already installed under Windows anyway, so if >> they needed to be there for Wine, they would already be seen by Wine)? >> But Wine does not refer to existing Windows installs by default, and it >> is strongly recommended that Wine not be set to do so. The default and >> preferred Wine configuration is considered to be Windows-less (i.e., a >> real Windows install does not exist on the system), even if that is not >> really the case. >> >> The site gives you a link to the Sidenet utility that AmishGuy used to >> install IE and WMP under Wine, did you follow it? (The title "Sidenet >> Wine Configuration" is a link to the site where you can download >> Sidenet.) I've never used Sidenet, but apparently it works for this >> purpose. >> >> You might also consider WineTools, which apparently has a SuSE RPM, so >> it might be easier for you to install than the Sidenet utility: >> http://www.novell.com/products/linuxpackages/professional/winetools.html >> (contains a link to the WineTools site) >> >> or you might also consider: >> >> Crossover Office (a commercial variant of Wine which installs IE and WMP >> as supported applications). A free trial is available: >> http://www.codeweavers.com/ >> >> >> >>> In Suse: >>> >>> If I open a terminal and enter: >>> >>> jbailo@texeme:~> wine /windows/C/Program\ Files/Rhapsody/rhapsody.exe >>> It does a whole bunch of crazy stuff like this: >>> >> >> >> It's not 'crazy stuff'. *Rhapsody requires that IE and WMP be installed >> before it will run.* You do not have IE or WMP installed (as far as Wine >> is concerned), so Rhapsody cannot find them, and thus will not run. The >> specifics of the errors are in this case irrelevant, because you have >> not met Rhapsody's minimum system requirements, so of course it's going >> to error out. If it still errors out after you get IE and WMP installed, >> then we'll have something to talk about, in terms of what the errors are >> ;) . >> >> >> >>> Any advice would be well appreciated as I love Rhapsody but I'm >>> forced to boot into XP to use it! >>> >>> >> >> >> Since pretty thorough instructions have been given on the page you've >> linked to, try following them and see how far you get. Since these are >> 'how I got it to work' instructions, if you follow them, you should be >> able to get it working at least as well as AmishGeek did. >> >> Hope this helps, >> Holly >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
