HOWTO Setup Wine

[gazj]

Im not to sure about the windows installer problem, although winetools does say when you install the new windows installer, some older programs may no longer install, the iexplore.exe does work on all versions of wine, its the ie6 setup program that dosen't work on 9.6-9.9

[FredSambo]

excellent how-to. everything is working beautifully, thanks!

[Rizado]

excellent how-to. everything is working beautifully, thanks!

The easiest way to install ie6 is to use ie4linux.
It's a script that downloads everything that's needed and installs into .ie4linux (by default) instead of .wine
Nothing is done in .wine at all so it can be ran without fear of breaking every other installed app and you'll have a clean .wine for other things.

[gazj]

The easiest way to install ie6 is to use ie4linux.
It's a script that downloads everything that's needed and installs into .ie4linux (by default) instead of .wine
Nothing is done in .wine at all so it can be ran without fear of breaking every other installed app and you'll have a clean .wine for other things.

I agree i use ies4linux aswell, but i like internet explorer 6 in my wine installation aswell, as many programs, rely on aspects of internet explorer to work, my girlfriend for one cannot manage without msn messenger, (gaims fine for me) msn messenger needs ie6 to work, thats why its handy to have it in wine too

good point well made if all you want is internet explorer though

[reet]

Hi,
I have fixed my problem with installing the "Windows Installer 2.0" by installing ActiveX control. I now have the problem that the program has installed a new version of ComCtl32.dll (5.80.2614.3600) but it is still detected as 5.80.0.0 by the program so it won't start. I guess some programs just won't work

[gazj]

Hi,
I have fixed my problem with installing the "Windows Installer 2.0" by installing ActiveX control. I now have the problem that the program has installed a new version of ComCtl32.dll (5.80.2614.3600) but it is still detected as 5.80.0.0 by the program so it won't start. I guess some programs just won't work

There are a lot of programs that don't work, wine is far from 100%, the best thing you can do, is look up your program on the winehq website, and see if anyone else has had success.

[halitech]

I thank you for this, I couldn't figure out all the commands either and this has helped alot.

edit: I'm going to try and get this working on a machine with no net connection, is there someway of getting the fonts and the windows components other then through the net?

[gazj]

I thank you for this, I couldn't figure out all the commands either and this has helped alot.

edit: I'm going to try and get this working on a machine with no net connection, is there someway of getting the fonts and the windows components other then through the net?

i think you could, if you have setup wine on a machine that is online, then find the winetools folder that was created in your home directory and burn this to a cd, then take the cd to your offline machine, and paste the winetools folder into the home directory, winetools should not need to download the files like it usually does. although i haven't tried this and can say it will work for certain, you can give it a try. Let me know how it goes

[halitech]

ok, I'll give this a try and hopefully it will work. Will let you know.

[mscman]

What a great HOWTO!!! Thanks a lot for all the help, as I'm probably not the only one who has tried (and failed...) numerous times to install and use wine. THANKS!!!