Running Kazaa with linux/wine
well, i tried wine + kazaa lite combination. it failed too.
your suggestions are most welcome
-sandip
The first step is to install wine.
I have the following installed for wine: (output of 'dpkg -l|grep wine'):
jsahambi@ws97:~$ dpkg -l|grep wine
ii libwine 0.0.20020605-1 Windows Emulator (Library)
ii wine 0.0.20020605-1 Windows Emulator (Binary Emulator)
ii wine-doc 0.0.20020605-1 Windows Emulator (Documentation)
ii wine-utils 0.0.20020605-1 Windows Emulator (Utilities)
ii winesetuptk 0.6.0b-1 Windows Emulator (Configuration and
Setup To
jsahambi@ws97:~$
And then run winesetup. This will create a dir ~/.wine and by default
it creates a sub dir called 'windows' in this.
Now once the wine is setup, you can might try running sol.exe (windows
solitier program, copy it from windows paritition if you have windows
installed on the same machine) just to check wine is running.
Install Kazaalite (I am using version 1.7.2, http://www.kazaalite.nl/)
by the command:
wine kali172e.exe
Once the program is intalled (in the dir ~/.wine/windows/Program
Files/KaZaa Lite/) it needs some extra windows stock DLLs. YOu have to
copy them from windows system. Here is the list of the files:
comctl32.dll
msvcrt.dll
shdoclc.dll
shlwapi.dll
wininet.dll
commctrl.dll
rasapi32.dll
shdocvw.dll
urlmon.dll
copy these files to ~/.wine/windows/Windows/System directory.
Now you can run Kazaa lite with the following command:
wine --managed -dll comctl32,shlwapi,shdocvw=n "c:\Program Files\KaZaA
Lite\kazaalit.exe"
Here I have assumed the program name is Kazaalite.exe
With Wine 20020605 or abvoe you may not need the option '--managed'.
In case kazaa crashes, you will have to delete the dir
~/.wine/wineserver-myhost.com (assuming your hosta name as 'myhost.com')
I hope I have made the things clear. If you have some dought, let me know.
Regards
J S Sahambi
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