Wine on Porteus

[geocacher]

Greetings,
Can you install Wine successfully on Porteus? Where do you find it and what is the process? Is it easy to use for running Windows programs?
Thanks

[Ed_P]

Porteus does support wine modules. Some are found on USM, some searching the forum. I do better with GeckoMono versions myself. Once activated to run a 32bit Windows program simply enter wine before the program name.

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wine /mnt/sda6/Users/Ed/'My Utilities'/PopTrayU/PopTrayU.exe

[fulalas]

Yes, Wine works nice with Porteus. Just need to download this txa package and convert it to xzm (right click):

https://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/f ... z/download

If you want to run x86 Windows applications, you'll also need lib32compat.

[Ed_P]

My wine module is 300+MB, the txa file is 50-MB. What's missing?

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guest@porteus:~$ ls -lgth /mnt/sda6//porteus3.2/Guest/Downloads/*wine*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root  48M Dec  9 16:36 /mnt/sda6//porteus3.2/Guest/Downloads/wine-2.22-x86_64-1sg.txz*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root 320M May 19  2017 /mnt/sda6//porteus3.2/Guest/Downloads/wine-2.4-x64-3.2-GeckoMono-1.xzm*
guest@porteus:~$ 

[fulalas]

@Ed_P, yours come with Gecko/Mono and the txz doesn't (although during the first run it offers an option to download both)

[Ed_P]

I don't disagree that Gecko/Mono adds to the size of my wine module but Alien's wine package, without Gecko/Mono, is still 5 times the size of your module.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# usm -i wine

 The following items were found.
 Choose an number to confirm. 
 ctrl+c to quit

1) q4wine-1.3-x86_64-2_slonly.txz   3) wine-2.13-x86_64-1alien.txz
2) twine-1.9.1-x86_64-4_slonly.txz
#? 3

Package:  wine-2.13-x86_64-1alien.txz  (211692 K) [upgrade]
wine: wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator)
wine:
wine: Wine (originally an acronym for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") is a
wine: compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several
wine: POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, & BSD.
wine: Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine
wine: or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on the
wine: fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods
wine: allowing you to integrate Windows applications into your desktop.
wine:
wine: Homepage: http://www.winehq.org/

And the desktop file for your app

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[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Application;Settings;
Comment=Settings Tool for WINE.
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=winecfg
Icon=winecfg
Name=Wine Configuration
Terminal=false
Type=Application

Indicates it's a Wine Configuration app.

Running winecfg creates a Wine Configuration in /root/.wine and prompts for Wine Mono Installer but this is on a system with a Wine Mono module already active.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# ls -l /mnt/live/memory/images/*wine*
/mnt/live/memory/images/wine-1.9.16-x64-3.2-GeckoMono-2.xzm:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root users   58 Dec 16  2013 etc/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root users 3324 Dec 25  2013 lib/
drwxr-xr-x 9 root users  148 Sep  7  2014 usr/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root users   26 Aug 14  2016 var/

/mnt/live/memory/images/wine-2.22-x86_64-1sg.xzm:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 136 Nov 26 11:20 usr/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  26 Dec  9 18:23 var/

root@porteus:/home/guest# ls -lght /home/guest/.wine/
total 2.2M
drwxr-xr-x 10 users  120 Dec 11 13:49 drive_c/
drwxr-xr-x  2 users  200 Dec 11 13:48 dosdevices/
-rw-r--r--  1 users 2.2M Nov 21 19:18 system.reg
-rw-r--r--  1 users  24K Nov 21 19:18 user.reg
-rw-r--r--  1 users 3.2K Feb 23  2017 userdef.reg

My wine desktop file.

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[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Wine Windows Program Loader
Name[ar]=منظومة واين لتشغيل برامج وندوز
Name[cs]=Zavaděč programů pro Wine
Name[de]=Wine Windows-Programmstarter
Name[es]=Wine Cargador de programas de Windows
Name[lt]=Wine Windows programų paleidyklė
Name[nl]=Wine Windows programmalader
Name[sv]=Wine Windows Programstartare
Name[ro]=Wine - Încărcătorul de programe Windows
Name[ru]=Wine - загрузчик Windows программ
Name[uk]=Wine - завантажувач Windows програм
Name[fr]=Wine - Chargeur de programmes Windows
Name[ca]=Wine - Carregador d'aplicacions del Windows
Name[pt]=Carregador de aplicativos Windows Wine
Name[pt_br]=Carregador de aplicativos Windows Wine
Name[it]=Wine Carica Programmi Windows
Name[da]=Wine, Programstarter til Windows-programmer
Name[nb]=Wine - for kjøring av Windows-programmer
Name[nn]=Wine - for køyring av Windows-program
Name[sr]=Wine - дизач Windows програма
Name[sr@latin]=Wine - dizač Windows programa
Name[tr]=Wine - Windows programı yükleyicisi
Name[hr]=Wine - dizač Windows programa
Name[he]=Wine — מריץ תכניות Windows
Name[ja]=Wine Windowsプログラムローダー
Exec=wine start /unix %f
MimeType=application/x-ms-dos-executable;application/x-msi;application/x-ms-shortcut;
Icon=wine
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true

So I am a little confused at this point.

This is what I saw when I ran winecfg.

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root@porteus:/home/guest# winecfg
wine: created the configuration directory '/root/.wine'
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}
err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hres=0x80004002
err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002
err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {00000131-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}
err:ole:marshal_object couldn't get IPSFactory buffer for interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}
err:ole:StdMarshalImpl_MarshalInterface Failed to create ifstub, hres=0x80004002
err:ole:CoMarshalInterface Failed to marshal the interface {6d5140c1-7436-11ce-8034-00aa006009fa}, 80004002
err:ole:get_local_server_stream Failed: 80004002
err:process:__wine_kernel_init boot event wait timed out
err:winecfg:open_mountmgr failed to open mount manager err 2
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

root@porteus:/home/guest# ls -lght /root/.wine/
total 908K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 891K Dec 11 19:09 system.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 8.1K Dec 11 19:00 user.reg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 3.2K Dec 11 19:00 userdef.reg
drwxr-xr-x 6 root  120 Dec 11 18:59 drive_c/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   80 Dec 11 18:59 dosdevices/

[tome]

Alien's x64 wine = x64(wine+gecko+mono) + x32(wine+gecko+mono), so calculate expected size correctly.

[Ed_P]

so calculate expected size correctly.

hmmmm 64 + 32 = 96 / 2 = 48 Yup, now I see how the winecfg file is half the size of Alien's.

[francois]

Is there anyone still using wine on porteus? Does it work fine?

[AcnapyxoB]

Is there anyone still using wine on porteus? Does it work fine?

I have been using Wine for a long time from: https://wiki.winehq.org/Download (Slackware - binary txz)
I use it for some specific programs, that have no analogue for Linux. Like MikroTik's Winbox, Notepad++.

Wine-8.0.2 stable (with pre-built .wine directories) ~90MB:
https://disk.yandex.com/d/q4q64_38Gf1tkQ

[francois]

@AcnapyxoB:
Very nice to provide the module.
Thanks.

[AcnapyxoB]

Very nice to provide the module.

You will also need multilib x86:
Multilib Ultra Lite for Porteus 5 final release