On 2010-12-06 18:49-0800 Dan Kegel wrote:
Does winetricks python26 work for you?
The answer to your question (for wine-1.3.8, at least) is yes it does, and that lead to a complete solution! I am CCing to the list as well because others will be interested in that solution to my original question.
The command above essentially downloads python-2.6.2.msi then executes
wine msiexec /i python-2.6.2.msi ALLUSERS=1
which worked and is very similar to what I tried independently with python-2.7.1, i.e.,
wine msiexec /i python-2.7.1.amd64.msi
which returned with no GUI and error message at all.
I then realized from that name this was likely a 64-bit issue. I then downloaded the 32-bit MSI version, (from http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7.1/) After that download
wine msiexec /i python-2.7.1.msi
worked like a charm! (I don't understand the significance of ALLUSERS=1 so I left it off.)
So problem solved for python-2.7.1. Thanks for your helpful winetricks suggestion which gave me an excellent start on the road to finding the solution for the latest python2.
One issue is you will likely want to incorporate the latest version of python2 in winetricks as well as python3 from http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.1.3/.
The remaining issue is the complete lack of any error messages when executing the 64-bit MSI file. Shall I file a msiexec bug report about that?
There is also no mention of 64-bit versus 32-bit MSI files at http://wiki.jswindle.com/index.php/Wine_MSI.
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