Getting WineX: a cvs issue...

[Elric of Grans]

G'Day,

I would like to get WineX so I could play my Windows games under Linux (if, by any chance, I can use that to run ICQ too, I can remove Windows while I am at it), I have one problem though: my Internet connection. I wanted to get the CVS (I am not paying for a binary!), but I cannot connect through the cvs command.

Here's the issue: I am on a LAN, and Internet connections are through a HTTPS proxy (and, apparently, three firewalls). Obviously, most things will not work under those conditions: it is as if my PC is not connected to the Internet at all.

As I am trying to get WineX, my primary question is what should I do in this situation? On a secondary question, if anyone knows how I can set things up so that I can use *anything* normally (being able to use LICQ and X-Chat as well as CVS would be nice, just for a start), I would very much appreciate the information.

I have a Red Hat distro...I forget what version it was, but I updated everything about 12 months ago, if that helps anyone. I am faily Unix literate, so please do not be worried about something being over my head: even if it is, I'll try my darndest to learn what it meant ;)

Thanks!

[Icarus]

I like your attitude :)
I use GnomeICU for my ICQ clone, it works very close to the Win ICQ.GnomeICU (http://http://gnomeicu.sourceforge.net/index.php)

To get the wine cvs, here's what I do (this will download the source to the directory you run it from into ~/wine)
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login
enter for the password (blank)
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co wine
Then it will download (takes awhile, almost 8 meg AFTER compressing, it downloads uncompressed)

After you get the code "cd wine" and (as root) "./tools/wineinstall" and it will compile.Skip the root configuration.

Run it again for any user that will use it and it will skip the compile, and enter in any gonfig info it asks...

to run a program "wine program.exe" and cross your fingers ;)


(Isn't the CODE suppose to make the text immune to UBB Code??)

[ 18 May 2002: Message edited by: mahdi ]

[Elric of Grans]

G'Day,

Thanks for the link: I'll take a look at that! However, the problem I am having is not in being unable to work out how cvs works, but in my connection: try using it from behind a HTTPS proxy and you'll see what I mean. When you are behind a connection like mine, most things cannot get through (not least because they cannot send the username/password to access the proxy).

To help illustrate, here's that I get:

$ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login
(Logging in to anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net)
CVS password:

It will just hang there until I sent an interupt signal. I have the same problem with anything that does not have built in HTTPS support - namely everything except my browser at the moment. No matter what I try to do (telnet, LinX, etc), it is the same result due to the proxy. I know HTTP tunneling, witha little help from a WinSock client, can be used to get things going in Windows, but that does not help much here (unless someone has the source I would need for both), and I am trying to avoid Windows anyway.

Thanks anyway!