cannot install apps

[kaushik12]

hi all ,

I've prob here .
when I try to install visual c++ (vcsetup.exe)in my opensuse 10.2 with wine
It works and extract files and after a second it says unable to extract or something (dont remember this line) please check your permissions .
and sometimes for other apps it says:
could not load "C:/windows/system32/<filename>/

what is the prob ?
pls help !!!!!
I'm new to linux (reallllllly new) and cannot understand most of the terms used.

THANKS

[bobescalin2005]

could not load "C:/windows/system32/<filename>/

Try to install it on windows and copy that file to linux in wine...maybe will work
Cheers!

[KenJackson]

I'm probably getting the same error, so let me amplify.

I downloaded Microsoft's free version of Visual C++, file vcsetup.exe.

I ran wine vcsetup.exe. It started execution and popped up this box:

Extracting Files
Verifying File: vcsetup

Almost immediately, it popped up this box, obscuring the first. All I could do was click OK and exit.

Extraction Failed
Unable to find a volume for file extraction.
Please verify that you have proper permissions.

I ran the Linux strace command (captured with script) and this line:
open("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Now why oh why would wine be trying to open /dev/hda??? I don't know. But that's the only line I could see that looked like a permission problem.

This looks like a wine bug. I'll try to search the wine bugzilla database.

[KenJackson]

Ah! This is bug 5351, which is caused by Microsoft's assumptions. It can be solved with the volnum command in the winetricks script. But I just used these equivalent commands:

cd ~/.wine
ln -s drive_c harddiskvolume0
cd dosdevices
rm c:
ln -s ../harddiskvolume0 c:

That got me past the first problem. But then I ran into the next:
Setup has encountered a problem while trying to copy: ...

I haven't scoped that one yet.