need a quick fix....

[silverknight]

The Os Im running is RH 8.0 and Im trying to get Everquest installed and running on it, from doing a search and looking through the forums I see that Winex is what I need, so going to the site I see that I would have to pay to get WineX 2.2.1's prepackaged files or I can get a CVS tree file, seeing that I dont have a credit card to pay for the prepackaged file and Im impatient to wait for snail mail to get my payment over there, Im woundering if anyone knows an easy simple fast way of getting this cvs file installed and running so I can run Everquest.

if there is no easy way than my only other option is to install win98 (m$ junk os) and if I do that can it be installed ontop of RH 8.0? (I have only RH 8.0 installed on that box)


anything painless and easy for help is much appreciated, please note when I say easy I mean, Im still learning and dont understand much of the linux commands to do any editing or compiling......I guess Micro$oft has spoon feed me so much and did all my work for me that Im just not familiar with having to do all the editing files and so forth just to install a file so I can install another file, so I can sit and feel stupid for paying 15$ a month to play an online game that really dosent do anything for me other than turn my brain into mush.... *sorry Im babbling here*

thank you for reading my post and I look forward in reading your suggestions


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Any Advice is good advice - me
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[bwkaz]

CVS is pretty easy, assuming you installed the development packages when you installed RedHat. If you didn't select them, you'll want to -- reboot to the RH installation CD, select "upgrade" rather than "install", and pick the development stuff.

Once you've got that stuff installed, you can simply type in what's posted on the CVS download page at transgaming.com:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login

Hit enter when prompted for a password

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co wine This last command (the "co wine" one) will create a wine directory wherever you're at in your directory tree. So then you can cd wine and start the compiling.

The first time you do this, run ./tools/wineinstall once as root, then once again as your normal user (you have to run it twice to set up your user's config files).

This asks some questions, then installs wine into /usr/local/{bin,lib,etc.}. You'll probably have to edit your /etc/ld.so.conf file (open it up in any editor) and add the line /usr/local/lib to it. Save and exit, and run /sbin/ldconfig as root. If you don't do this, sometimes Wine can't find libraries it needs.

Once that's all done, you should be able to run the installer for EQ. Just put the CD in, do a mount /mnt/cdrom (may not be necessary, but it might be), and try to wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe. If there is no setup.exe on the CD, then look for something else that you can run to start the setup, and wine it.

Then, you can usually wine /path/to/wherever/you/installed/eq/eq.exe to start up Everquest.

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If you want to update wine (I do this about once a month, but changes are always being made, so you can do it more often if you really want to), just change directories to the wine source directory, do a make distclean, then a cvs update, then re-run ./tools/wineinstall as root.

There are better ways to do the last bit (what I do is run "./configure --enable-opengl", then "make depend && make" as a normal user, then "make install" as root), but just running wineinstall will probably be easier for a while at least.