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  Need help with Play on Linux Jiangsu Kumquat <reply@mynetblog.com> - 2019-01-25 16:30 +0100
    Re: Need help with Play on Linux Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2019-01-25 16:50 +0100
      Re: Need help with Play on Linux Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2019-01-25 23:10 +0100
        Re: Need help with Play on Linux Jiangsu Kumquat <reply@mynetblog.com> - 2019-01-28 04:30 +0100
          Re: Need help with Play on Linux Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com> - 2019-01-28 05:50 +0100

#204613 — Need help with Play on Linux

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Please email me directly as I might not see your reply in the mailing list.

I installed "Play on Linux" and attempted to run a program under it. You
can download it here:

https://www.playonlinux.com/

I am trying to completely rid myself of using Windows. The only thing that
I really need Windows for is to play games made for Windows. So, if I can
get this to work, I'll put Microsoft in the waste bin!

No matter what I do, it tells me that Wine has crashed. When I try to
install a program either manually or a supported software, it tells me that
Wine has crashed and I never see the Windows installer box.

I have tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions of wine and they both crash.
(I installed wind with APT and also installed wine from inside plays on
linux.)

Here is an error I get when I first execute the program:

PlayOnLinux is unable to find 32bits OpenGL libraries.
You might encounter problem with your games

>From here on out I always seem to get this error no matter what I do...

Error in POL_Wine
Wine seems to have crashed

And this is as far I can get.

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#204618

On 1/25/19 8:25 AM, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> Please email me directly as I might not see your reply in the mailing list.
> 
> I installed "Play on Linux" and attempted to run a program under it. You
> can download it here:
> 
> https://www.playonlinux.com/
> 
> I am trying to completely rid myself of using Windows. The only thing
> that I really need Windows for is to play games made for Windows. So, if
> I can get this to work, I'll put Microsoft in the waste bin!
> 
> No matter what I do, it tells me that Wine has crashed. When I try to
> install a program either manually or a supported software, it tells me
> that Wine has crashed and I never see the Windows installer box.
> 
> I have tried both the 32 and 64 bit versions of wine and they both
> crash. (I installed wind with APT and also installed wine from inside
> plays on linux.)
> 
> Here is an error I get when I first execute the program:
> 
> PlayOnLinux is unable to find 32bits OpenGL libraries.
> You might encounter problem with your games
> 
> From here on out I always seem to get this error no matter what I do...
> 
> Error in POL_Wine
> Wine seems to have crashed
> 
> And this is as far I can get.
> 
> 

First, are you using Stretch, or testing/sid?

Did you add the i386 architecture to dpkg?

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt update

You will then need to reinstall wine, and possibly your drivers. If you
are using Nvidia graphics, you *definitely* need to reinstall your
drivers and the proprietary drivers.

# apt install wine wine32 wine64 libwine libwine:i386 fonts-wine

I would also consider installing wine from backports, or directly from
WineHQ. Details on how to install from WineQH are on the WineHQ website.

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#204648

Let's take this a step at a time.

On 1/25/19 11:55 AM, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> Here's some stats about the computer I'm running Play on Linux with:
> 
> OS: stretch 64bit
> CPU: Intel® Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz × 2
> RAM:  2.0 GiB
> Graphics: Intel® 945G (built-in video on the motherboard)
> I think I have located the driver for this video card but I'm not sure
> how to install it. I tried to install it as a regular program, but the
> setup program says that my computer does not meet the requirements to
> install it.

The Linux Kernel has built-in drivers for your graphics. No additional
drivers needed.

> I just added i386 to dpkg and installed wine32. This seemed to resolve a
> lot of problems.

Good!

> I successfully got the installer for a windows app to run. However it
> did not install correctly...
> I'm trying to install Spotify client.
> 
> I installed "mono-complete" and "mono-complete:i386" but the installer
> still could not find mono.
> So I had the play on Linux installer install mono.
> 
> *It complained that I do not have "wine-gecko" installed. *I cannot seem
> to resolve this.

Thats odd, PlayOnLinux should have prompted you to install wine-gecko.

> Spotify says that it could not find WINHTTP.dll and won't run.
> 
> 
> However, I did successfully manually install and run this software with
> default wine... although it doesn't require a lot of stuff to run. (It
> will run in DOS apparently) It's an audio spectrum analyzer.
> 
> https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/Audio-SpectrumView.shtml
> 
> Also, on the play on Linux main window, the capture plugin gives me this
> error:
> 
> 01/25/19 09:03:52 - [main] Fatal: Please install alsa-base
> 
> However, alsa-base is not available in stretch.

Have you tried installing Spotify via vanilla Wine, instead of PlayOnLinux?

> The attached log file is for Spotify. It doesn't say it in the file, but
> I am getting an error message that it cannot find WINHTTP.dll.

The only thing I can see that *might* cause a problem is that you are
installing Wine 1.7.35. Granted, this is the version that is in Stretch,
but it is a very old version. Perhaps try installing it from Stretch
Backports, then reinstall Wine, and see if that helps. Also, Spotify
appears to be problematic with Wine outright.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8514

To install from backports, first add backports to your repos.

# echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main" | tee
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports
# apt update

Then install (or in this case, re-install) Wine

# apt install \
      wine/stretch-backports \
      wine32/stretch-backports \
      wine64/stretch-backports \
      libwine/stretch-backports \
      libwine:i386/stretch-backports \
      fonts-wine/stretch-backports

This will install Wine 3.0.3 from backports, and should give improved
compatibility.

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#204735

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 So, I did all that and then I tried once again to get Spotify to install
without errors, but It still can't find the .dll file.

I posted a picture:
https://postimg.cc/wRLyFTyb
and added a comment about this in the PlayOnLinux forum under Spotify:
https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-386.html

I think I give up. Other people have been having this issue for a while.
Thanks oodles for your help. I did not know about adding the i386 to dpkg
before you told me about it.

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 3:03 PM Matthew Crews <mailinglists@mattcrews.com>
wrote:

> Let's take this a step at a time.
>
> On 1/25/19 11:55 AM, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> > Here's some stats about the computer I'm running Play on Linux with:
> >
> > OS: stretch 64bit
> > CPU: Intel® Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz × 2
> > RAM:  2.0 GiB
> > Graphics: Intel® 945G (built-in video on the motherboard)
> > I think I have located the driver for this video card but I'm not sure
> > how to install it. I tried to install it as a regular program, but the
> > setup program says that my computer does not meet the requirements to
> > install it.
>
> The Linux Kernel has built-in drivers for your graphics. No additional
> drivers needed.
>
> > I just added i386 to dpkg and installed wine32. This seemed to resolve a
> > lot of problems.
>
> Good!
>
> > I successfully got the installer for a windows app to run. However it
> > did not install correctly...
> > I'm trying to install Spotify client.
> >
> > I installed "mono-complete" and "mono-complete:i386" but the installer
> > still could not find mono.
> > So I had the play on Linux installer install mono.
> >
> > *It complained that I do not have "wine-gecko" installed. *I cannot seem
> > to resolve this.
>
> Thats odd, PlayOnLinux should have prompted you to install wine-gecko.
>
> > Spotify says that it could not find WINHTTP.dll and won't run.
> >
> >
> > However, I did successfully manually install and run this software with
> > default wine... although it doesn't require a lot of stuff to run. (It
> > will run in DOS apparently) It's an audio spectrum analyzer.
> >
> >
> https://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/Audio-SpectrumView.shtml
> >
> > Also, on the play on Linux main window, the capture plugin gives me this
> > error:
> >
> > 01/25/19 09:03:52 - [main] Fatal: Please install alsa-base
> >
> > However, alsa-base is not available in stretch.
>
> Have you tried installing Spotify via vanilla Wine, instead of PlayOnLinux?
>
> > The attached log file is for Spotify. It doesn't say it in the file, but
> > I am getting an error message that it cannot find WINHTTP.dll.
>
> The only thing I can see that *might* cause a problem is that you are
> installing Wine 1.7.35. Granted, this is the version that is in Stretch,
> but it is a very old version. Perhaps try installing it from Stretch
> Backports, then reinstall Wine, and see if that helps. Also, Spotify
> appears to be problematic with Wine outright.
>
> https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=8514
>
> To install from backports, first add backports to your repos.
>
> # echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main" | tee
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports
> # apt update
>
> Then install (or in this case, re-install) Wine
>
> # apt install \
>       wine/stretch-backports \
>       wine32/stretch-backports \
>       wine64/stretch-backports \
>       libwine/stretch-backports \
>       libwine:i386/stretch-backports \
>       fonts-wine/stretch-backports
>
> This will install Wine 3.0.3 from backports, and should give improved
> compatibility.
>

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#204736

On 1/27/19 8:26 PM, Jiangsu Kumquat wrote:
> So, I did all that and then I tried once again to get Spotify to install
> without errors, but It still can't find the .dll file.
> 
> I posted a picture:
> https://postimg.cc/wRLyFTyb
> and added a comment about this in the PlayOnLinux forum under Spotify:
> https://www.playonlinux.com/en/app-386.html
> 
> I think I give up. Other people have been having this issue for a while.
> Thanks oodles for your help. I did not know about adding the i386 to
> dpkg before you told me about it.

I just looked, and Spotify apparently has a native Linux client. So I
guess Wine/PoL are not needed anymore?

https://www.spotify.com/us/download/linux/

You can either use the .deb package they provide, or you can use a snap.
Either way should yield better results.

Cheers,

-Matt

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