Installing WineX using the guide on these forums

[Antellamon]

Hello all :)

Now i isntalled Mandrake 10.0 Community, and i wanted to try and isntall the CVS version of WineX. Fyi, i am planning on buying it, i just want to see how it works out for me first.

So, since i am extreamly new to Linux, dont laff ok :)

STarted by typing mkdir /root/.wine

And it said Permission denied. What odes this mean? That i dont have administrator rights or something? I was also wondering what root is and how i can access it, it's nowhere on my Desktop.


Thanks in Advance

Anders

[klackenfus]

Root is the administrator in Linux or Unix in general. During your setup phase, you should have been prompted to type what you wanted for the root password. To access root, from your terminal, simply type su and press enter. You will then be prompted to enter the password. Once you enter it, press enter and you are now the root user. Be very careful what you do as root. You truly have complete control over your system and if you don't know what you're doing, you can really mess things up! Try never to run an X session as root, it's a big security risk. I recommend doing a lot of reading before you attempt too much as root. Good luck!

[dboyer]

You sure bit off a lot to chew as a new user... winex cvs is a pain to install, and i suspect it won't even compile correctly out of the box :)

There are resources that can help you get through it, as best as possible, just try not to get bogged down in getting it to work, and getting too frustrated... IMHO, it is one of the harder tasks ive tried to tackle since i started using linux/openbsd/freebsd several years ago... just sort of a heads up :)

To add on to what was already said... root is simply another user on your system.. it is more or less the equivalent of window's administrator... The idea behind commands like su (superuser) is that you can turn into root temporarily, carefully issue a few commands, and then use the command "exit" to go back to your regular user... that way you don't do accidental things by staying as root all the time (aka, installing bonzi buddy by hitting the wrong button to a weirdly worded question... it will be obvious something isntalling on your system because it needs a password to do so)

[Antellamon]

OK, no i got a bit on the way, to the part with cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co wine

When i type this, i get the following message, cannot find module "wine" -ignored

What does this mean? What did i do wrong? i am SU now btw =)

[bwkaz]

That's the old WineX CVS repository.

The new one can be accessed with:

cvs -d:pserver:cvs@cvs.transgaming.org:/cvsroot login

<password is "cvs" sans the quotes>

cvs -d:pserver:cvs@cvs.transgaming.org:/cvsroot co winex

[Antellamon]

Thanks man, the download started fine =) Still when itried to do the enxt step something new went wrong, and it might have to do with new file names or something

[root@localhost root]# cd /root/.wine
[root@localhost .wine]# ./tools/wineinstall
-bash: ./tools/wineinstall: No such file or directory
[root@localhost .wine]#

What's wrong?

[Icarus]

There shouldn't be a .wine directory (that would be the local users working wine config directory)

Looking at the CVS, it should give you a directory winex in the directory you ran the cvs get from.

So, it looks like your in the wrong directory. It should be
cd /root/winex
./tools/wineinstall

Also, be sure you did the su as "su -" so there are no pathing problems when you compile (which is what the wineinstall does)

[Legithrandil]

i have a quick question.

can winex use the same config file as wine? i'm running version 20040309 and i'm getting the cvs of winex as i type this. i'm hoping that i can use the same one, due to the tweaking i have done to it.

if i have to make a new one, i can use the wine config as a base, but it would be easier to keep the old one.

so, can it be done?

[psi42]

IIRC, remembering from my experiences with mandrake 9.1, you're going to need to install byacc and flex from the mdk cds to get this monster to compile.

Unless they fixed this issue, installing "all the development packages" does not, in fact, install all the development packages.

Now then, you did tell it to install the development packages, right? If not, you'll need to install those too...

~psi42