Knoppix and Wine

[aay]

Some people have recently experienced problems running Wine in recent versions of Knoppix. People have most likely seen a message telling them that fonts are being configured and configuration makes it to something like 99% before Wine crashes.

There is a fix.

Copy your MS fonts into .wine/fake_windows/Windows/Fonts

You should then be able to run the app without any problems.

P.S.

You may be able to solve this problem without having to grab fonts from a windows machine at all.

I haven't tested this but do this.

apt-get install msttcorefonts
apt-get install binfmt-support

Hope this helps people.

[rickenbacherus]

Thanks aay. It worked for me! Since I have no M$ I just stole some true type fonts from a M$ Office cd. Still- it's very freaky watching winapps run on my Linuxbox.

[TheCyberDude]

Try Installing WineX

apt-get remove --purge wine
apt-get install tetex-base
apt-get install defoma
apt-get install msttcorefonts
apt-get install binfmt-support

cvs -dserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login
Hit Enter when prompted for a password
cvs -z3 -dserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co wine

(You probably will get following compile errors - just read fix and apply)

configure: error: /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a is present on your system.
This prevents linking to OpenGL. Delete the file and restart configure. (Move it to /home/knoppix/tmp)

lex.ppl.c:15099: warning: `yyunput' defined but not used
/home/knoppix/CVS/wine/tools/wrc/ppl.l (comment at the beginning of ppl.l is too long) [Cut it Out]

lex.ppl.c:15099: warning: `yyunput' defined but not used
/home/knoppix/CVS/wine/tools/widl/ppl.l (comment at the beginning of ppl.l is too long) [Cut it Out]


Invalid path 'c:\windows' for windows directory: does not exist

mkdir /mnt/hdg1/windows [Insert you /mnt/ (HDD)
mkdir /mnt/hdg1/windows/system [Insert you /mnt/ (HDD)
mkdir /mnt/hdg1/windows/system32 [Insert you /mnt/ (HDD)

wine c:\\Program\ Files\\SETI@home\\SETI@home.exe [NOTE: Program Files is used as wine c:\\Program\ Files\\ - space before Files)

wine -debugmsg +file wordpad.exe &>/tmp/winelog.txt (DeBugging Example)

[seth]

Is it possible to have both Wine and WineX running in one linux-box?
Thx, seth.

[Ambrose]

I have wine running fine in Knoppix 3.1, after alot of work!

It runs fine, error messages are never seen.

[jwal]

For those of you who don't want to go around randomly moving or removing files at the request of configure scripts, I have found that
replacing the line

if test -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a -a ! -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so

with

if test ! -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.a -a ! -f /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so

(negating the logic of the conditional)
allowed everything to run smoothly. I found this on configure:9406.

After doing this (cvs co on 15th February 2004) I did not run into the other problems with long comments etc.

[probono]

It is also sufficient to put just one (GPL) Bitstream Vera font inside the fonts directory. This way you need nothing from Miscrosoft.