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?
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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
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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?
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Originally posted by heylookitsmewowBoth of these programs worked fine in hardy. Any ideas?Windows no longer obstructs my view.
Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
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Originally posted by SnowhogOriginally posted by heylookitsmewowBoth of these programs worked fine in hardy. Any ideas?
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Metatrader
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=1599
Wavepad
http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...ation&iId=4276
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Originally posted by heylookitsmewowAnyone know how to get my wine icons back in the start menu after deleting them?Mark Your Solved Issues [SOLVED]
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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.
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[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?
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Like this:
Originally posted by ArgentIt 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.
$ cd path_to_EXE_file
$ wine program_name.exe
Observe the output from wine in Konsole to see what is happening.
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I am looking for the path to exe file under
/home/me/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Metatrader 4 by IamFX/
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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?
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Originally posted by TelengardIf 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'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?
MetaEditor.exe
MetaLang.exe
terminal.exe
Uninstall.exe
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