Games for Linux

[TheScaryOne]

He might be using a graphical interface instead of the command line. I have no idea any balance of that, but hey, I'm trying to help... And terminal sounds like command line thing.

[spoon]

This happens for me:
% wine [insert anything here, or nothing at all]
wine: chdir to /tmp/.wine-user/server-343-65c05e : No such file or directory

[Bruce]

Finally!

Looks like it isnt installed properly/not everything is installed. I've never installed the wine RPMs so dont know what they actually contain or their dependancies. Check the install notes (once again not too knowledgable about RPM, but there should be some) and make sure you have everything.

[MasteR]

i have redhat 9. I installed wine from the source and it works fine.

get the source,
extract it
on command line change to the source directory
./configure
make
make sure your in root and do make install


least thats how i did it

[EvilElf]

ok.... can you take me through that step by step
/me is still really new to this OS
:S

[Bruce]

He did pretty much. If you want to install from source:

get tarball
run 'tar zxvf <tarfile>'
enter the dir created
run './configure'
run 'make'
use 'su' and give root passwd
run 'make install'

[EvilElf]

ok got to the run make but don't know the command to enter for that :s

[Bruce]

er... sorry but do you realise how stupid that sounds? Try reading my post again.

[EvilElf]

Gah I am really stupid
/me bangs head onto near by wall.
Also you must know I have really no clue about this OS ATM So I am really fucking clueless about what to do.

[Tanarin]

Hmm, EE if you like UT2K3, disk 3 also acts as the Linux Install Disk for it, just pop it in and install from there, and as a bonus you don't need WinE to run it either. Just pop in disk 3 and install. Make sure to patch up afterwords, otherwise you won't be able to play multiplayer online.

[EvilElf]

don't have UT2k3 also I'm thinking I'm just going to give up on this cause whenever I do the command make it says something about a rule and *looks up at Bruce's post* all he says is 'make' and I have no fucking clue what to do I have never used any Limux OS before about 3 days ago!

[MasteR]

type make

make is a command that tells it to compile, if ./configure was run before it

[EvilElf]

this is what happens when I do that.
[evilelf@x1-6-00-40-2b-4e-8f-7c evilelf]$ /home/evilelf/wine/configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cc... no
checking for cl... no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See `config.log' for more details.
[evilelf@x1-6-00-40-2b-4e-8f-7c evilelf]$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

[Bruce]

OK EvilElf, you are slowly learning. when something doesnt work PASTE THE ERROR.

Fir you should be in the dir with the souce (wine), not running it from your home dir. This wont break configure but it will break make.

Also note that it is configure which broke, not make.

configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH

That says you dont have a C compiling. To compile C beleive it or not you need it. This is where i dissagree with RPM based distros being good for newbies, in deb all the tools required would have installed when you got the source.

SO you will need to get:

GCC
G++ (if it has C++ code, I think wine is)
binutils (maybe, and you might already have it)
libraries. Read the instructions for wine.

You can go through one at a time, when you run ./configure it will tell you what you are still missing.

[EvilElf]

Where can I find those?