Declan Moriarty wrote:
It seems I have this thing installed at last.
The decisive manoeuvre was to read the AppDB :-(. Apparently java-1.4.2
bombs out under wine, and the solution is to go to java-1.5.0. Presuming
you use the download ( o1jxel45.exe ). Run it once, and it bombs badly,
making a randomly named directory in windows/temp. So your actions are
Java 1.4.2, the file j2re-1_4_2_12-windows-i586-p.exe from
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
installs and runs fine for me under Wine, at least when set to emulate
Win98 (which is the way I am running Java). And the Java does actually
run correctly. Apparently, from what I have seen elsewhere, 1.5 won't
run right, as you are finding.
I would suggest giving a try to first installing ie6 using ies4linux.
http://www.tatanka.com.br/
It will not touch or affect your current Wine installation at all, so it
is safe to just give it a try, and should not take all that long.
The first step is to run the ies4linux script. This will create a
separate Wine home and drives, installed under ~/.ies4linux, and will
set the default Wine version emulation to win98. Then you would set an
environment variable:
export WINEPREFIX="~/.ies4linux/ie6"
The WINEPREFIX means that any commands issued after this point will use
the .ies4linux stuff.
Now run the j2re installer. You should be able to fire up ie6, and test
out the Java there.
Then try installing the Irish Revenue software, and running it. If
things work, you can make it easier to execute.
Notice that ies4linux created the file ~/bin/ie6. This is a plain text
script that runs ie6 under the ies4linux installation. You want to
create a simple script to run IRS, so it would probably just need two
lines, something like:
export WINEPREFIX="~/.ies4linux/ie6"
wine "~/.ies4linux/ie6/drive_c/Program Files/IRS/IRS.EXE"
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