I failed to install my PenPower driver via Wine.

[Matthew_Wai]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sW9CZku0Mk
On Windows 10, I used the above PenPower Chinese writing pad.
On Linux, I cannot use it because there is no compatible driver.
How can the problem be fixed?

[Lord Boltar]

It may work under WINE but no guarantees

You may also have to install windows in a VM to get it to work the manufacturer does not support Linux

[Matthew_Wai]

It may work under WINE but no guarantees

Is the following true?

You can't install Windows drivers in Wine.

You may also have to install windows in a VM to get it to work the manufacturer does not support Linux

It already works on guest Windows, but I want get it to work directly on host Linux.

[Lord Boltar]

It may work under WINE but no guarantees

Is the following true?

You can't install Windows drivers in Wine.

You may also have to install windows in a VM to get it to work the manufacturer does not support Linux

It already works on guest Windows, but I want get it to work directly on host Linux.

You CAN_ install drivers and some drivers might even install properly. However the only "drivers" that Wine currently supports are the copy-protection type "drivers". In most cases these drivers doing extra checks on a system to verify presence of debuggers or any other "snooping" tools.

In the future it might be possible to use "filter" type drivers - like most USB drivers. They don't talk to hardware directly but interpret data received/sent from/to the device.

No hardware drivers are currently supported on Wine. And most likely no real hardware drivers will ever work on Wine.

[Matthew_Wai]

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matthew@matthew-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install wine-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
wine-stable is already the newest version (3.0-1ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 597 not upgraded.
matthew@matthew-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install wine64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
wine64 is already the newest version (3.0-1ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 597 not upgraded.

I have installed Wine. When I right-click on an .exe file, "Open With Wine Windows Program Loader" does not appear. When I click on "Other Application", "Wine" does not appear either. Wine is absent from the application menu when I click on the "Menu" button. What should I do?

[Matthew_Wai]

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matthew@matthew-pc:~$ winecfg
it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"

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matthew@matthew-pc:~$ sudo apt-get install wine32
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
wine32:i386 is already the newest version (3.0-1ubuntu1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 551 not upgraded.

I have just installed "wine32", but Wine is still nowhere to be found on my Mint.

[Matthew_Wai]

Much better to use the wine instructions specifically for Mint/Ubuntu:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu

I ran sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable and got the following:

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matthew@matthew-pc:~$ sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable

Wine does not appear on my Mint 19 although I have installed it.

[pbear]

That suggests you didn't install the WineHQ repository correctly.

Please run inxi -Sr in Terminal and report the output.

[Flemur]

E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable

Wine does not appear on my Mint 19 although I have installed it. See viewtopic.php?f=49&t=291065#p1624580

No, you haven't installed it, at least not with the commands you showed; see pbear's response to your post.
Edit: pbear posted it here, too...

[Matthew_Wai]

Please run inxi -Sr in Terminal and report the output.

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matthew@matthew-pc:~$ inxi -Sr
System:    Host: matthew-pc Kernel: 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 bits: 64
           Desktop: Cinnamon 3.8.8  Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tara
Repos:     Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
           deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main
           Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
           deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tara main upstream import backport
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
           deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner

No, you haven't installed it, at least not with the commands you showed;

Software Manager shows it as installed.

[Flemur]

No, you haven't installed it, at least not with the commands you showed;

Software Manager shows it as installed.

Then you installed some type of wine, but not with the commands you showed, which reported errors:

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E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable

because you don't have the wine repos to install winehq-stable (they're missing in the inxi output).

Try these in a terminal:

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wine --version
dpkg -l "*wine*" | grep ii

[Matthew_Wai]

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matthew@matthew-pc:~$ wine --version
wine-3.0 (Ubuntu 3.0-1ubuntu1)
matthew@matthew-pc:~$ dpkg -l "*wine*" | grep ii
ii  libwine:amd64      3.0-1ubuntu1 amd64        Windows API implementation - library
ii  libwine:i386       3.0-1ubuntu1 i386         Windows API implementation - library
ii  wine-stable        3.0-1ubuntu1 all          Windows API implementation - standard suite
ii  wine32:i386        3.0-1ubuntu1 i386         Windows API implementation - 32-bit binary loader
ii  wine64             3.0-1ubuntu1 amd64        Windows API implementation - 64-bit binary loader

[pbear]

Okay, so plainly you have Wine 3.0. There are three ways to install an .exe file in 3.0, but you mentioned above that you would like to have the Wine Windows Program Loader. To get that, run the following command in Terminal:

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sudo ln -s /usr/share/doc/wine-stable/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/

Now try right-click and report what you see.

[Matthew_Wai]

[pbear]

Well, there you go. What you've done is put in a symlink so your system knows where to find the Program Loader. No one seems to know why it was hidden in 3.0, but it's been restored for 4.0.

Anyhoo, whether Wine actually will be able to solve your problem is a separate issue, but at least now you're in a position to try. Good luck.

[Matthew_Wai]

I tried to install the PenPower driver, but the installation has failed. See below.

PenPower 5.jpg (11.05 KiB) Viewed 2053 times

Error Number: 0x80040708
Description: Unable to create required engine components, check whether you have appropriate privileges to create COM components (0x80004005).

What should I do?

[Hoser Rob]

From the Wine FAQ:

7.3 Can I use Wine to install drivers for my hardware?
No. Wine requires your hardware to already be working on your operating system. The technical reason for this is that Wine, like most applications, runs in user mode and not kernel mode.

You'd have to try ndiswrapper for that sort of thing but I wouldn't be optimistic. ndiswrapper has been around for years and years and if it worked properly we'd all be using it.

[Matthew_Wai]

Could you post the link to what you quoted above?

[pbear]

Because you want to make sure he didn't make it up? Did you try to find it yourself?

Hint: https://www.winehq.org/

[Matthew_Wai]

What he quoted seems somewhat inconsistent with the following:

You CAN_ install drivers and some drivers might even install properly.