Wine programs not opening

[heylookitsmewow]

I installed wine in a fresh install of Karmic and installed metatrader and wavepad in wine. When I try to start either of the programs I get the bouncing icon next to my mouse pointer for a little while and also the tab for the program in my toolbar and then they both disappear and the program never opens. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling wine with no change. Both of these programs worked fine in hardy. Any ideas?

[bossa]

Re: Wine programs not opening

I was having the same problem . add this to your software sources and try installing wine again .


deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Wine programs not opening

I gave that a try but no change. Another problem it has is the uninstall wine programs locks up when I try to uninstall anything and nothing uninstalls. So between installs I deleted the entire .wine folder out of my home folder and on the last try I deleted the K menu wine icons just in case they were pointed in the wrong direction. I thought it would put the icons back when I reinstalled but it didn't. So on top of my original problem that is still there how do I get the menu icons back?

[Snowhog]

Re: Wine programs not opening

Both of these programs worked fine in hardy. Any ideas?

That was three releases back. Just because they worked in Hardy is no guarantee that they will work in Karmic.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Wine programs not opening

Both of these programs worked fine in hardy. Any ideas?

That was three releases back. Just because they worked in Hardy is no guarantee that they will work in Karmic.

That's the obvious but I was hoping there may be a solution. Do you think I am just hosed with Karmic and will have to go back to Hardy if I want to use these programs?

[skunk]

Re: Wine programs not opening

Metatrader

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=1599

Wavepad

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=4276

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Wine programs not opening

Anyone know how to get my wine icons back in the start menu after deleting them?

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Wine programs not opening

Metatrader

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=1599

Wavepad

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=4276

I may have missed something but not sure what I was supposed to get out of these links. I probably should have posted this thread in the noob section.

[sithlord48]

Re: Wine programs not opening

Anyone know how to get my wine icons back in the start menu after deleting them?

right click on ur K menu and select menu editor, from there you can recreate the shortcuts , just remember for programs you wish to run in wine the command will be wine '<path to exe>' (and yes use the ' s)

[Argent]

Re: Wine programs not opening

That bouncing with a blank tab which will close after a while usually means the program wasn't found. The tab is a red herring, it's not really loading. Often this means your path is wrong. Chances are when you fix that it will be OK.

It would be a good idea for you to try and run your software through wine from the CLI the first time so you can see what's going on.

Those two links are where you can get good information on your particular programs. Whether they are likely to work, how well and how to get the best result possible. If you do not understand wine very well you may have to learn about that first.

There's no automatic way to get icons back as far as I know the manual way described previous post is all you have. I don't know how to fix the icons up either.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Wine programs not opening

[quote=Argent ]
That bouncing with a blank tab which will close after a while usually means the program wasn't found. The tab is a red herring, it's not really loading. Often this means your path is wrong. Chances are when you fix that it will be OK.

How would I go about doing that?

[Telengard]

Re: Wine programs not opening

Like this:

It would be a good idea for you to try and run your software through wine from the CLI the first time so you can see what's going on.

Alt+F2 -> konsole, and then:

$ cd path_to_EXE_file
$ wine program_name.exe

Observe the output from wine in Konsole to see what is happening.

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Wine programs not opening

I am looking for the path to exe file under

/home/me/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Metatrader 4 by IamFX/

I found some exe files but I don't think the right one is in there. I am guessing it's something like MetaTrader.exe but it's not in there. Maybe the install is not installing the file for some reason. Could that be and what would cause that?

[Telengard]

Re: Wine programs not opening

If you run the installer again, but this time inside Konsole, you can see if any errors occur. It is possible that the installer file (setup.exe or whatever) is corrupted.

What are the names of the EXE files in the folder?

[heylookitsmewow]

Re: Wine programs not opening

If you run the installer again, but this time inside Konsole, you can see if any errors occur. It is possible that the installer file (setup.exe or whatever) is corrupted.

I really should have posted this to the noob section.

What's the command to run in the konsole? I think the path to the install file would be /home/me/Downloads/iamfx4setup(2).exe

I tried this, not sure if it's right or tells you anything. The installer seems to be hung up at this point. It's a new install that I just downloaded.

me@Acer:~$ wine /home/me/Downloads/fm4setup.exe
fixme:sfc:SfcIsFileProtected ((nil), L"C:\\Program Files\\MetaTrader - ForexMeta\\sounds\\alert.wav") stub

What are the names of the EXE files in the folder?

LiveUpdate.exe
MetaEditor.exe
MetaLang.exe
terminal.exe
Uninstall.exe