wine question

[Paul Howarth]

w bugar wrote:
> Hi, I installed wine, using FC4, and put in a CD from
> the back of a textbook, the initial screen came up but
> none of the buttons worked. I got this error message
> using the command line (wine xxx.exe):
> 
> [wbugar at localhost cdrecorder]$ ls
> autorun.inf  dir  illgloss  installer  refimg  video 
> weldres  ws.exe  WS_icon.ico
> [wbugar at localhost cdrecorder]$ wine ws.exe
> err:x11drv:X11DRV_CreateWindow invalid window width
> -4232
> 
> Something I can do to fix this?
> I also tried to load the winetools rpm:
> 
> [wbugar at localhost Wine]$ rpm -i winetools*rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         wine is needed by winetools-2.1.2-jo.i386
> [wbugar at localhost Wine]$ which wine
> /usr/local/bin/wine
> [wbugar at localhost Wine]$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/wine
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 102904 Jul 30 00:39
> /usr/local/bin/wine

You are trying to install an rpm of winetools but you didn't install 
wine using RPM, so there's no record of it in the RPM database. This is 
one reason why it's always better to install software using RPM if possible.

See if you can find an RPM of wine and install that.

Paul.