On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 6:33 PM, zaffa <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi qwertymn > > could you show me exactly the steps you did? > > i tried this: > > > Code: > > zaffa@zaffa-desktop ~ $ cabextract biliardo.zip > biliardo.zip: no valid cabinets found > You need to extract the ZIP file first, Try you favourite archive program, or unzip. (Unzip might need to be installed...) mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo $ unzip biliardo.zip Archive: biliardo.zip inflating: setup.exe Then ou should run cabextract on setup.exe: mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo $ cabextract setup.exe Extracting cabinet: setup.exe <snip list of files> All done, no errors. You can then try to run it: mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo $ cd files/App/0/ mohag@mohagpc ~/billiardo/files/App/0 $ wine Biliardo.exe It seems to run fine, except for some mouse weirdness... (Mouse hit imaginary barrier at a few places on the screen and need to be moved back first before being able to move past that line... I experienced similar weirdness in a few other games...) You might also be able to run the DOS version under Dosbox, although DOSBox is slow compared to Wine... > > also, how can i get a log by wine when installing a software? with a detailed log maybe it would be easier to solve the problem > Run it from the command-line with more WINEDEBUG settings set... http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-3b297df7a5411abe2b8d37fead01a2b8edc21619 http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-a37de3282d447376d2220d20a278ae52258551a4 http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/wine-user/x2194 If you want to a file, use output redirection. http://www.mathinfo.u-picardie.fr/asch/f/MeCS/courseware/users/help/general/unix/redirection.html (look at the section about Bourne shell if you do not know which shell you are using...) Gert