oracle client with wine

kamina · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:41 am Post subject: oracle client with wine

I want to try to install a windows application on my (work) linux box, as getting it to run would finally free me from windows. The application is Peregrine Assetcenter, and it requires oracle client to be installed. I tried installing oracle client under wine from a cd, but it did'nt really work out. When I type

AliasXZ · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:56 am Post subject:

yeah thats how you launch apps with wine and yes it would have to be installed throgh wine so that its in your fake_windows drive.

sorry im not really big on wine, if it had an error message maybe I could do something. is there a log file??

anyone help?
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Tiger683 · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:04 am Post subject:

Is the setup just the setup.exe, or does the installer directory contain more files?
If the latter is the case, you might try wine --dos-cwd=<full path to directory whre the installer is> setup.exe.

try wine --help or sth. similar to see if i didn't misspell the switch.

cheers

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kamina · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:13 am Post subject:

I got it to go a bit further... I had originally copied all the files from the installation cd to a local folder. I tried now installing directly from the cd, and it did launch something...

However I get an error in the console where I run the command from: