Re: running ie6 using wine under amd64

[Jo Shields <Jo.Shields@comlab.ox.ac.uk>]

Simon Guerrero wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm sure this has been asked before - and there are many HOWTOs - but 
> I just can't get it to work.
>
> To pre-empt the obvious questions: I want to do this because I'm doing 
> some development of a device which is linux-based but can run ie6 
> locally along with RDP. Unfortunately my main linux dev box is amd64, 
> which complicates matters.
>
> I think I've installed wine OK under my 32-bit chroot, but when I try 
> and run an app (i.e. ie6setup.exe) I get:
>
> Invoking /usr/lib/wine/wine.bin ie6setup ...
> wine: Could not load graphics driver 'x11drv'.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set 
> correctly.
> Wine failed with return code 1
>
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
> By the way, what should my $DISPLAY be? :0.0? How does it use the main 
> display when in a dchroot?
>
> Simon
It CAN be done (in your case it seems you didn't use the -d flag on 
dchroot), but WINE FREQUENTLY regresses in terms of whether it can or 
can't install MSIE. a good bet is using the Sidenet Wineconfig scripts, 
which may or may not work for you, depending on wine version, day of 
week, phases of moon, etc.

--Jo Shields