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    Problems Runing Wine

    I tried installing Wine on my computer and it "installed" sucessfully. I tried running Notepad as a test run for it from Applications > Wine > Programs > Notepad, and nothing, no red light blinking to signal my hard drive is doing anything no window. So i try running it from the terminal...

    Code:
    tuxiscool@tuxiscool-desktop:~$ wine
    wine: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/bin/../lib/libc.so.6: cannot read file data: Error 21
    tuxiscool@tuxiscool-desktop:~$
    Ive never used Wine much except playing a few games but i was wondering if i could get any help...

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    Re: Problems Runing Wine

    IIRC, you have to run winecfg before wine will function. SO type that into a terminal, a WINE settings window will pop up, and then you should be good to go.
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    Re: Problems Runing Wine

    Just typing "wine" won't do anything, you need to tell it what to "wine", like this:
    Code:
    wine notepad.exe

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    Re: Problems Runing Wine

    ty for the info.

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    Re: Problems Runing Wine

    Quote Originally Posted by bobmatino17 View Post
    I tried installing Wine on my computer and it "installed" sucessfully. I tried running Notepad as a test run for it from Applications > Wine > Programs > Notepad, and nothing, no red light blinking to signal my hard drive is doing anything no window. So i try running it from the terminal...

    Code:
    tuxiscool@tuxiscool-desktop:~$ wine
    wine: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/bin/../lib/libc.so.6: cannot read file data: Error 21
    tuxiscool@tuxiscool-desktop:~$
    Ive never used Wine much except playing a few games but i was wondering if i could get any help...
    Actually this is a serious error. Just typing wine should give you the usage:
    Code:
    $ wine
    Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
           wine --help                   Display this help and exit
           wine --version                Output version information and exit
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=607766 has something regarding libc.so.6, so I would try:
    Code:
    sudo apt-get --reinstall install libc6

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    Re: Problems Runing Wine

    well i wont be trying anything for i while. I had this great idea to upgrade from hardy to jaunty alpha after modifying apt's repositories. It didnt go well

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