I hate RPMs.

[Guy79]

Well one thing I see is that your using the wrong command to install an RPM from the command line. You should be using:

rpm -ivh kopete-0.6.1a-4rh80akc.i386.rpm

and

rpm -ivh wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i686.rpm

There are other commands that can be used with "rpm" from the command line, but the "-ivh" is the most common.

The "./" usage is for *.bin files. So if you had: wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i686.BIN, then you would use "./wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i686.BIN".

Hope this helps.

[Ed]

Thanks. That worked for Kopete, but not for WINE, strangely enough...

[root@Linux Files]# rpm -ivh /home/ed/Files/kopete-0.6.1a-4rh80akc.i386.rpm
warning: /home/ed/Files/kopete-0.6.1a-4rh80akc.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1e547375
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:kopete ########################################### [100%]
[root@Linux Files]# rpm -ivh /home/ed/Files/wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm
error: /home/ed/Files/wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed
error: /home/ed/Files/wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Does WINE require something more? o_O

[yowwww]

damn, I only mentioned to look at the command list on my guide 9 posts ago!

lol

as a general rule, it is better to rpm files from within their own directory.

ie, use konqueror to browse to that directory (/home/ed/Files) or whatever

then click on tools - open terminal

[ed@localhost ed] $ rpm -ivh whatever the h.e. double hockey sticks the file is

[Ed]

I did that. It says this:

[root@Linux Files]# rpm -ivh wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm
error: wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed
error: wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm cannot be installed

[yowwww]

isn't wine already installed in RH 8.0?
maybe that is what is causing the conflict.

try whereis wine in the terminal
also wine -v

if it shows you what version is there or displays a directory for whereis wine then it is already there.

if so and you want a later version (if your version is too old)

you can try rpm -Uvh instead of -ivh which would upgrade your current version if you already have an earlier one installed

other than that you might be missing some development packages.

[Ed]

[root@Linux Files]# wine -v
Wine 20020605

That's the version that I have...I've never used it, and I assume that it's installed correctly as RedHat did that on its own, but I have it and want to use a newer version.

[root@Linux Files]# rpm -Uvh wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm
error: wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm: rpmReadSignature failed
error: wine-20030219-1rh8winehq.i386.rpm cannot be installed

Still the same error with -Uvh.

[ed@Linux ed]$ whereis wine
wine: /usr/bin/wine /etc/wine.reg /etc/wine.systemreg /etc/wine.userreg /usr/lib /wine /usr/include/wine /usr/share/man/man1/wine.1.gz

That's where the current WINE is. Am I supposed to run the RPM from within one of those directories?

[yowwww]

try doing rpm -Uvh as user, if that doesn't work then;

I'd just try to use the version that you have, but if you really want to upgrade then it looks like you might have to remove the other one first and then install the newer one. That may not work though, so be prepared to re-install the previous version if it doesn't.

You can remove your previous version of wine by using the package manager. When that is done, then you can rpm the newer one using rpm -ivh since it would then be considered a new install.

[Ed]

Doing it as a user returned the same arguement again. I'd rather just use my current version rather than upgrading, but it doesn't appear to work...

When I type "wine" in the Run Command it doesn't do anything. When I go into /usr/bin and clicked on "wine", it doesn't do anything.

What now? X_X

[yowwww]

It sounds more like you need to see how wine works, there are associations you need to make and other things as well. Check out this site and read up on how wine is used:

http://www.winehq.com/

[Ed]

I read a good chunk of that FAQ...it's all Greek to me. Could you explain briefly how I would go about running a Windows program using WINE? Since RedHat installed it for me, I really don't know how to use it. =\