Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Installing games in Ubuntu

Ok guys the reason i haven't been posting much is because I am currently in a battle of witts between my computer and myself. I like to play games--there I said it. I like PC games at that. There is an application called Wine that allows people to install and play windows games, and other applications in Linux. Cool beans right--wrong. The wine install was pretty easy.

Open a terminal window from "Applications --> Accessories"


sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list


Once that is done you are supposedly able to type


sudo wine


Yeah well if during the install of the application you must say--change CDs you get the error "Cannot eject CD because application is using it". Umm yeah well that sucks. I thought I had it figured out with the "sudo wine eject" command but althogh the Cd ejected, the installation would not continue. As soon as I get this figured out I will tell yall all about it.

2 comments:

Dan Kegel said...

First, please don't ever do 'sudo wine'.
It's just not a good idea to run
Windows programs as root.
(You may need to do 'sudo rm -rf $HOME/.wine' to recover from this, I don't know.)

Second, the trick to ejecting a cd-rom
in that situation is
wine eject
It's not 100%, but it often works.

Third, the place to go for help with
wine is the wine-users mailing list.
You can subscribe here:
http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users

Jeaimehp said...

Thank you so much.

For some reason the "wine eject" command locked up the install. The CD was ejected but I couldn't continue.

Any ideas?