Wine on Linux Mint 15 64 bit

[trader_fx]

I have a computer with limited ram resources, namely...
CPU: AMD Athon 64 2800+
MEM: 1 Gb DDR 2x512
AGP: Radeon 9600 Pro RV360 ATI
S-ATA HDD: WD 740 ADFD Raptor
MB: Soltek K8AV2 s754

Linux mint fits me well, but there are some applications necesary. So, I started to search for decision and was rather suppriesed not to find Wine in the Application Manager! As far as I understood Wine uses x86 architecture, so updated apt packages with i386, Wine icon appeard in AM but hanged every time clicking on it! At last I managed to download 250 Mb packages: sudo apt-get install wine1.7 ... I was about to read License Agreement but my PC Hibernated and I was not able to wake it up. Thogh normal boot works fine I do not know if everything is right.

So, what next?

[Fraoch]

That doesn't sound right, Wine 1.7 is the development version. It may be buggy.

The version in the repositories is the stable 1.4.1.

Unless you want to file bugs and assist in Wine development (not a bad thing at all, but probably not what you want) it would probably be best to uninstall 1.7:

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sudo apt-get purge wine1.7

update:

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sudo apt-get update

and install wine using:

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sudo apt-get install wine

or through Synaptic. The Software Manager can be a bit buggy for me, I avoid it.

Oh and although your PC is low on RAM, Wine is not VirtualBox - it should run, although slowly.

[trader_fx]

Well, Wine 1.7 was the only thing I was able to install becuase of missing packages or bad connection or something...
Ok then, I also think I hardly can assist in The development for now.

As for Software Manager it always hangs when I click on Wine, though once I was able to read its description

I am about to use Wine for simple portable windows applications and hope it will not disappoint me)

sudo apt-get install wine says I have broken packages!

[Fraoch]

sudo apt-get install wine says I have broken packages!

apt-get has functions for fixing this, but unless you know the commands it's easiest to do this in Synaptic, which is a graphical front-end for apt-get.

In Synaptic go to Edit - Fix Broken Packages.

[trader_fx]

Thanks a lot for supporting
I successfully installed wine 1.4.1!

So, it works with some applications fine. But progs does not use internet connection no matter if I install or simply open with wine the prog

[trader_fx]

I need help with installing the prog under Wine. If there is any special forum, please let me know.

I have an AGEA account - foreign exchange broker. And sometimes I need to launch their trading platform under Linux. I contacted AGEA Support, it says they do not have the platform for Linux but I am allowed to use Wine or else. Program setup installed everything and created link on Desktop, the program starts as it should, asks Username and stops responding because cannot create internet connection.
Program name: streamster-2-1574 [http://www.agea.com/_getclient.ncre?nam ... ion=latest]
Wine version: 1.4
Thanks.

[Flemur]

You might find more info on your application here:
http://appdb.winehq.org/
Depending on your program, there are sometimes/often other pieces of MS you need to install through "winetricks".

For more info on your error, try running from a terminal.
$ cd ~/.wine/path/to/executable
(fill in your own, correct values)
$ wine program.exe

You'll get lots of output, and some of it might be useful.

Wine 1.4 vs 1.7: I've been using both, and the main diffs I see are that a useful program that didn't work under 1.4 works in 1.7, and a audio volume control that didn't work under 1.4 works in 1.7.

Edit: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5155
"Post subject: Can not connect to server in Streamster Marketiva"
and
http://askubuntu.com/questions/91926/ho ... streamster

[trader_fx]

So, wine progname.exe says

fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\steamster.exe"
esername@username-desktop ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/AGEA Streamster $ fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x2e33e410) stub
fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x2dc440f8) stub
fixme:msvcr90:__clean_type_info_names_internal (0x2daddfa0) stub