Whoops, sorry...:oops:

I need a lookout on deck! :Kaleun_Periskop:

Appearently all mine were :()1:


EDIT: I just re-read your post, and I think something is odd, but try what I have below anyway, it will tell us if things have gone screwy......
End EDIT.


Let's assume all went well..

Go to a terminal and type:

winecfg


A small window SHOULD open with multiple tabs, this will allow you to "setup" wine.
I.E. To choose which directory will function as your hard drive.
By default a directory named .wine (the "." in front means it is hidden) is created in your "home" directory to be your "C:" drive.

If it doesn't, then something went wrong. If it does, then continue on:
You should, by default, be looking at the "Apllications" tab. 1.9.0 and up usually default to "Windows 7". You will see a drop-down menu just above OK/Cancel/Apply buttons.

Make sure it is showing "Windows 7", and click "Apply".

Now click the "Drives" tab
click "add"
and choose the first available "drive Letter", and click ok. Mine is showing "F:". But I have 2 optical drives.

Click "Show Advanced".
On the "Path" line, enter a path to the directory you wish to use. on mine I have a Directory named "driveH". (please note it IS case sensitive!)
I have my drive set to "H:" and the path is "/home/<login-name>/driveH
I keep all my games that need 32bit, directX9, dotnet2.0 in here.
I have one named "driveJ" and it is "J:" in winecfg. I keep all my 64bit DX10 & DX11 games in there.

On the "Type" drop-down menu, select "Local hard disk".

At this point you should be good for now, go ahead and press "ok" to close it.


Now to actually use wine, you will need a Windows game.
Do you have SH3 or SH4?
Or another game from that time frame? Something that requires DirectX9 would be best.

I specifically mention SH3/4 because I know they work without any special help.

Just place it in the CD/DVD drive, use your file manager and find the install file, and click it like you would any other file to open it.
It SHOULD launch, and allow you to install the game.

If winecfg doesn't launch let me know, and we can try to see what may have gone wrong with the setup/install...



Speaking of not being afraid to "break things"...
I'm typing this from my backup/update testing hard drive...
As I lost one of my drives in my RAID0 earlier. About the time I was typing my last post.

I think the spindle bearing is gone... So hopefully tomorrow I'll make a quick trip to one of the larger computer stores and pick up some WD Caviar Black drives and build me another RAID.
Fortunately I backed up my entire /home to another HD that is rarely used.
I've had it for ~4 years and it only has 1 more month of "up-time" than the 2 oldest in this PC which is less than a year old....:haha:

So I'm off....

Barracuda

Hi Barracuda, so far I have only read up to the test with winecfg, this is the return terminal message:
"The program 'winecfg' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install wine1.6"
Thought I'd best get this info to you first.:yep:
BTW, the current system I use on my old machine is XP Pro, the new pc is dual boot with Win 10, but I hate it, should I still select Windows 7?
Nasty about the spindle bearing in the HDD, this is the main reason I am trying to update, my old pc is about 6yo, including hard drives.

To answer the simple question first...

WINE just "mimics" Windows as far as the program is concerned, it doesn't actually give you a Windows desktop.

If, for example, you have a game that needs XP minimum to run, but you have wine set to "report" Win98, then when the program starts it checks which version of Windows you have.
Wine will say "this is win98", at that point the program will end and give you a message in a window saying something like "This programs requires Windows XP or better to run".

If you set WINE to WinXP, then re-run that same program it will check as it always does, and Wine will say "WinXP". The program will then start.

A general idea, but I cover the basics of "how" it works here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=229238

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As far as whether or not you should install that one, we need to check to see what is available.

Simply because I'm not familiar with the graphical installer, let's stick with apt-get...


on fedora, I can type:

dnf info <name of package>

to get info about that package...

if I just type "dnf" I get a list of possible commands such as "info", "install", "remove", etc.

Try typing just:

apt-get

It should print out the "help" list.

Is there a command like "info" that tells you what a package does?


I'm going to assume that there is one... and that it is called "info".
Substitute which ever command you need to....

If in Fedora, I type:

dnf info mesa

Mesa is the driver/3d part of the sytem (more or less, I'm being really "rough" here).
But there isn't a package name just "mesa", they are all mesa-<something>-<somthing>-etc-etc....

Each containing a small piece of the whole....
So to fine which particular part I need I would type:

dnf info mesa* <----------------------- notice the *

The star, like DOS is the catch all wildcard.... it will then show me all packages that start with "mesa".

Try that with WINE....

Assuming "info" is the right command, again, double check as I mentioned above...

apt-get info wine*

This should show you all the packages that start with wine....
IF it gives an error, then put sudo in front:

sudo apt-get info wine*

You shouldn't need "sudo" just to get info, you are not making any changes at that point....


Lemme know how it goes. I'll check back asap, I got my replacement HDDs...

4, 1TB WD Black... going to setup another RAID0, retire my ~1 year old Seagates to backup duty...

I'll reply as soon as I get the system back up and running. Restoring the backup will take time, it is still only one drive!

Barracuda

This is what I get from APT-GET:

Good Luck with the drive.

Well I discovered wine was only 127kb in size so I uninstalled it and then ran this: sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
Again all seemed to work but got this (last few lines):

I then ran winecfg and got his:

Also asked for some file to install since .NET failed, I cancelled, the same thing with Gecko.

The reason I cancelled is that wine doesn't show anywhere not that I really know what to look for.

After a bit of reading I did the following:

Then:

I did this, this did a lot and ended with:

Now should I run Winecfg?:oops:
Some sort of results guaranteed!!:yep:
BTW, I still can't fine Wine anywhere!!:doh:

When you run the WineHQ version winecfg isn't put on the desktop by default. I'm on an infernal Windows machine at work right now so I can't tell you where the Windows stuff resides. But you should run winecfg.

Now when you download a Windows program, navigate to the downloaded file and right-click it. Your top option should be install with WINE installer.

Thanks Steve, I keep thinking Wine is a virtual desktop!!:oops:
I will try winecfg later, hopefully it asks for the .NET and Gecko to be installed.:yep:

Btw, I tried the WinHQ forum but is a pain since my posts have to be 'approved' before they go on, that takes 24hrs. I did get a reply to the first, I had made a typo and the responder was rather rude!!

Edit:
I ran winecfg from the terminal and it opened up a box, after I closed it I get the terminal message:
"fixme:msg:pack_message nsg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet"

It seems that Wine is only accessible with context menus on exe files only?

Anyone know what "PlayOnLinux" is like?
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html
Or is this better:
https://www.codeweavers.com/products/crossover-linux

I deinstalled Steam launcher and then reinstalled it on Linux, to see whether it really gives me the choice, but it left me no choice ever to select the installation location, so it went onto the SSD. Within Steam I could choose where the game installation folder should be placed, but choosing the second drive, the HD, does not get accepted as a valid location, I need to chose the SSD again, only then it would work. So I have not installed any game.

The HD drive is mounted. Google seems to have instalkled some files there without me noticing it, and I have manually moved MP3 and picture archives here.

Any attempt to install a program to the HD so far has failed.

Not that I know much but I have 2 HDD's and I have trouble installing Linux stuff to NTSF drives, data is ok.:hmmm:

Naaa, drive format is not the issue here.

Ok, I'm guilty!!:D

http://altralto.com/wp-content/uploa...nformation.png

A head, a head, a kingdom for a head on a silver platter! :D

Hey!
Ubuntu Unity is Dead: Desktop will switch back to GNOME next year


After six years of developing a decently working desktop on their own, Canonical has decided to go back to its open source roots. Starting in 2018 with Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu will ship with GNOME 3 (or 4 by then?) as its default desktop.

When developers were unable to get the next version of Unity, Unity 8, stable enough to use as a default desktop, Mark Shuttleworth and cohorts took stock and made the tough choice to stop duplicating the efforts of truly open source desktops.

Unity started out to near universal jeers by the Linux crowd. They persevered until Unity 7 became a well functioning desktop deserving respect. Then it looks like they dropped the ball on Unity 8. Game over.

This isn't a bad thing. GNOME, KDE, Mate, Cinnamon, LXDE, XFCE, OpenBox, PekWM, Pantheon, Enlightenment, and Deepin, plus more are available to be used. There are dedicated Ubuntu programming teams for various Ubuntu "flavors," Kubuntu (KDE desktop), Ubuntu Mate, Lubuntu (LXDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Ubuntu Budgie (Budgie desktop not mentioned above), holy crap there are a lot of choices!

And that's what Linux is all about: choices. The users determine what will live and what will die because they're in charge. The Linux community CARES about what you want and respects your judgment.

Me? I'm off to download the KDE Plasma desktop and the GNOME 3 desktop to begin with. I've looked at Enlightenment once and was intrigued. And maybe I need to check out Budgie, since there's a dedicated Ubuntu flavor for that. Cool stuff!

Okay, you MADE me do it. I'll look into it and report back. Onward, into the fog!

https://askubuntu.com/questions/2602...installs-games

Best answer I saw was to be done directly in Steam:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/VT...g=w720-h281-no