Re: Wine installation fails
On 25.8.2010 0:42, Gary Roach wrote:
> I just installed wine 1.0.1, Debian squeeze. The package never
> registered with the menu system. When I attempted to install MATLAB from
> disk, I got the following error:
> root@supercrunch:/home/wine# wine /media/cdrom0/setup.exe
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set
correctly.
>
>
> My X server is definely running. I am using a KDE desktop environment.
>
> Winecfg errored out with the following:
>
> root@supercrunch:/home/wine# winecfg
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> fixme:mixer:ALSA_MixerInit No master control found on HD-Audio Generic,
> disabling mixer
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> No protocol specified
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set
correctly.
> Application tried to create a window, but no driver could be loaded.
> Make sure that your X server is running and that $DISPLAY is set
correctly.
> err:ole:apartment_createwindowifneeded CreateWindow failed with error 1114
>
> I've looked at some of the web sites but haven't found much help. Does
> anyone have a clue where to start fixing this.
>
> Thanks for any support.
>
> Gary R.
>
>
You should not run X11-programs straight as root, use gksudo or similar
to achieve that. Actually you can install a Windows program as a regular
user
into your own $HOME/.wine
--
Juha Tuuna
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