On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 18:23, Stan Goodman
Odd, I'm using 1.6.1 on my system (installed in CrossOver, but still, that's still essentially Wine (with a nice/usable application installer UI on top), and it works just fine.
But if you look in the Wine website, you'll see a list of "issues", by app and release, and one of these describes exactly the behavior I have encountered. It isn't special to me.
Which is why I mentioned I use CrossOver to run Kindle. Wine is fine, but there is a lot of benefit to using Crossover (there is a small license fee though)... especially if you don't care what's going on, and want things to just work (assuming the app in question works in some version of Wine to begin with).
No. The way I have been installing Kindle is: Call Wine Configuration from Kicker Open the Applications tab Drag the installer to the window and drop it.
Oh... ok, I've never tried it this way. I just launch from command line when I want to install something in vanilla wine (rare since in almost all cases Crossover works better for me).
I will review your suggestions, thank you for them. If they don't lead to a quick solution, I think the way to go is to uninstall Wine altogether (easy, because there is nothing in it except fhe Kindle); make sure that there is no .wine directory, then reinstall Winde anew, with Kindle v1.5.0 (because I know it works).
You don't need to uninstall Wine... since you only have Kindle installed in Wine, just delete ALL of /home/$USER/.wine As in remove the whole .wine directory. Next time you launch Wine, it'll recreate the .wine directory as a new fake Windows structure with no leftovers from any previous install. Then just install whatever version of Kindle works for you. If it messes up and you want to start clean again, delete .wine. Reinstalling Wine will only rewrite the stuff installed in the root, and that will have no effect on anything in your /home.. which is where the problem lies. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org