Trouble with Linux

[enve]

I've grown to hate MS with a passion, and have attempted to run linux many times. Everytime it's worked, connected to the internet fine..just one problem: wine. I can't get that SOB to install and run right. If anyone could help me, I'd appreciate it. My main concern with it is getting games to run with it. I was close to getting Half-Life: Counter-Strike to run with it once, but it came up with some error when it was initializing setup. And I know it's possible, because many of my online friends have it working.

So any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

[saquarrier]

Wine is a pain, though for a few programs it is worth while wait to get used to using linux and running a dule boot, before you start depending on wine, in the mean time lets hope it gets a lot better soon (it's vastly improved from the first time I tryied it)

[badkarma]

That's coincidental, I've been trying to get HL running with wine too, and I have it running but it gives me some error about the 3d card. I have a suspicion as to what it is, I made sure I compiled wine with opengl support and checked the libGL.so and libGL.so.1 symlinks. But I probably think it's because I didn't use a windows partition for wine but made a wine only fake partition install. I'll look into it some more when I have more time  

[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: BadKarma ]

[badkarma]

to install wine correctly just do the following :

(this is basically a repost from a previous topic with a minor modification)

download wine source, latest version.
(http://www.winehq.org)

put the file in your /tmp dir

then :

su -

mount /windows/c (or whatever your windows partition is)

(if you installed from rpm's or your distribution came with wine)
rpm --erase --test wine (or something similar, don't know exact package name)
rpm --erase wine

(else if you installed from source)
cd (WINESOURCEDIR)
make uninstall

cd /usr/src
tar tzf /tmp/Wine-20020122.tar.gz
tar xzf /tmp/Wine-20020122.tar.gz
cd wine-20020122
./tools/wineinstall
(do everything up untill the local config file)
exit
cd /usr/src
./tools/wineinstall
(create the local configfile)

(then install half life (this went fine for me), switch to half life dir, and type

wine hl.exe -- hl.exe --console

(now if you absolutely positively want to make sure wine is compiled with opengl support you do the following steps)

su -
make uninstall
cd /usr/src/wine-20020122
make clean
rm config.cache
./configure --enable-opengl
make depend && make
make install
(make uninstall keeps your ~/.wine dir I believe so you don't have to run wineinstall again)

[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: BadKarma ]

[enve]

Thanks a bunch, greatly appreciated.