Re: [Wine]How can I run an already installed Flash MX 2004 (on an /NTFS partition)?

[Scott Ritchie]

Ok I finished the winetools package when I should have been sleeping, so
you're gonna need to be my usability guinea pig.

Install the winetools package from the same place the wine packages are
(winehq), then use it to setup wine for you and install dcom.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 10:34 +0200, Emre Sevinç wrote:
> Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > I'm almost done with the winetools package which should make installing
> > DCOM98 an easy one-click affair for you.  I'll update you in a day or
> > two if I finish.
>
> Well, is there no way to use the Flash.exe which is installed on my MS
> Windows 2000 partiton?
>
> Do I have to install Flash MX 2004 into a fake windows dir. created by
> WINE?
>
> I still don't have any configuration file, will I need such a file (in
> both cases?) The reason
> why I don't have one is described below, in my previous mail.
>
> I hope you can help. This is the first time I installed and tried to
> use WINE and it
> is really important for me.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Emre Sevinc
> Istanbul Bilgi University
> http://www.bilgi.edu.tr
> > Thanks,
> > Scott Ritchie
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 19:35 +0200, Emre Sevinc wrote:
> > > First I tried wine from the Debian unstable repository. It didn't work
> > > for installing Flash MX 2004.
> > >
> > > Then I was given advice and I tried the latest version so grabbed
> > > and installed the .deb package from the winehq repository (Wine
> > > 20050111)
> > >
> > > Yes, I also tried to install DCOM98.EXE by following the
> > > instructions from http://navi.cx/svn/misc/trunk/winekb/NativeDCOM.xml
> > > but it also had some problems (please refer to
> > > http://www.winehq.org/hypermail/wine-users/2005/02/0000.html )
> > >
> > > Now, ok, I give up installing FLASH MX 2004 on a fake windows
> > > drive but I just want to learn:
> > >
> > > I already have an MS Windows 2000 partition (NTFS) on the same
> > > hard disk and I was able to install Flash MX 2004 when I booted
> > > windows. Can I use this Flash MX 2004 which is
> > > already-installed-on-windows-system  with WINE?
> > >
> > > If the answer is yes then I'll say: How?
> > >
> > > Current situation:
> > >
> > > $ wine /NTFS/Program\ Files/Macromedia/Flash\ MX\ 2004/Flash.exe
> > >   err:module:import_dll Library MSVCIRT.dll (which is needed by L"Z:\
> > > \NTFS\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Flash MX  2004\\xerces-c_2_1_0.dll")
> > > not found
> > >   err:module:import_dll Library xerces-c_2_1_0.dll (which is needed by
> > > L"Z:\\NTFS\\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Flash MX 2004\\Flash.exe") not
> > > found
> > >   err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"Z:\\NTFS
> > > \\Program Files\\Macromedia\\Flash MX  2004\\Flash.exe" failed, status
> > > c0000135
> > >
> > > Now you may wonder about my wine configuration and ask what my
> > > ~/.wine/config
> > > is and I must say that, well, I've run the latest WINE it created some
> > > directories
> > > under ~/.wine  (it was a fresh start, I had already deleted the
> > > ~/.wine directory
> > > from the previous Debian installation) but THERE IS NO config (or
> > > similar) file.
> > >
> > > So, can somebody be kind enough to show me config file or tell me what
> > > kind
> > > of file I must create in order to simply run the Flash MX 2004 which
> > > is
> > > already-installed-and-working-on-windows-system?
> > >
> > > winesetup? No, please! :) Now that I added the winehq repository to my
> > > /etc/sources.list when I try to apt-get winesetup it says that it is
> > > going to remove wine. So I prefer to copy the config file (the RIGHT
> > > one)
> > > from somewhere or create it by using the information that some WINE
> > > user
> > > or hacker will provide.