Why would Installshield want WINSPOOL.DRV

I was asked by my son to install a couple of games for him on his Linux
laptop.  Wine is installed (at the current Debian unstable level) but when
I try to run the installer, which says it is InstallShield, it gets to 99%
and stops, and the console says that it can not load WINSPOOL.DRV.

Firstly I can think of no good reason for InstallShield to want this (can
anyone else, as far as I know this game - Star Trek Elite Force - does not
have a print facility), and secondly what do you think is my best route fix
the problem.  There are some Windows machines (98/ME/NT4) in the house, I
am using Win 98 mode in Wine, which machine should I copy WINSPOOL.DRV from
if it will help?

Thanks in advance

David

[Uwe Bonnes]

> > > > > "David" == David Goodenough  writes:

David> I was asked by my son to install a couple of games for him on his
    David> Linux laptop.  Wine is installed (at the current Debian unstable
    David> level) but when I try to run the installer, which says it is
    David> InstallShield, it gets to 99% and stops, and the console says
    David> that it can not load WINSPOOL.DRV.

David> Firstly I can think of no good reason for InstallShield to want
    David> this (can anyone else, as far as I know this game - Star Trek
    David> Elite Force - does not have a print facility), and secondly what
    David> do you think is my best route fix the problem.  There are some
    David> Windows machines (98/ME/NT4) in the house, I am using Win 98 mode
    David> in Wine, which machine should I copy WINSPOOL.DRV from if it will
    David> help?

Wine won't load a "XXX.drv" file...

Don't expect "installshit^eld"  applications to behave sane. Probably some
debugging is needed. But expect relay loga of several 100 MByte.

Bye

[Ove Kaaven]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 [e-mail] wrote:
> I was asked by my son to install a couple of games for him on his Linux
> laptop.  Wine is installed (at the current Debian unstable level) but when
> I try to run the installer, which says it is InstallShield, it gets to 99%
> and stops, and the console says that it can not load WINSPOOL.DRV.
>
> Firstly I can think of no good reason for InstallShield to want this (can
> anyone else, as far as I know this game - Star Trek Elite Force - does not
> have a print facility), and secondly what do you think is my best route fix
> the problem.  There are some Windows machines (98/ME/NT4) in the house, I
> am using Win 98 mode in Wine, which machine should I copy WINSPOOL.DRV from
> if it will help?

If you're using the Debian packages, you can find Wine's winspool.drv in
the libwine-print package.