easy question

[mg911]

can someone please tell me how to change the resolution on my linux box - i am somewhat of a newbie to this OS - can you try to lay it out in a laymen's way of how to do it,

also if you can help me with a program called wine i would be very appreciative - but first the resolution would be good to know how to change -

thanks a mill

 

[d3funct]

As root type "setup" you will see a menu, at the bottom choose "Xconfiguration" and it will run you through setting up resolution.

http://www.winehq.org

for wine help. I've always thought it bes to read the faqs, docs etc.. before posting questions that have been answered elsewhere. d3funct
zimmer.jon@cfwy.com
The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.

 

[mg911]

Thanks a lot - for the help on the resolution

ok i know i could read the faq's but sometimes its easier to ask someone who knows how to use the prog then to read and try to figure certain things out

actually one question

can i execute exe's and the progs still run in linux like they would in windows
thanks

 

[ifincham]

Hi,







You can run a fair proportion of windows executables on linux by installing wine. The version of wine more suited to beginners is codeweaver's wine from -->

http://wine.codeweavers.com/

. The original wine package and development site can be found at -->

http://www.winehq.org/

. If you are interested in running windows games under wine see -->

http://www.linuxgames.com/wine/

.
There is also a company making a version that is specifically oriented towards gaming - see -->

http://www.transgaming.com/

and

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winex

Regards

 

[mg911]

the major problem i am having with wine is that when i click on open - to open the rpm - it says that i dont have certain applications installed but when i go to install it - it tells me that i have higher versions than needed

on a side note -

i found the applications that are needed to run the program but they are in a different directory - does that matter - i know linux/unix machines are a little wierd

thanks for having patience -

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

RPM supports the concept of dependencies. Many packages 'require' other packages to already be installed because it makes more sense to have shared libraries etc. RPM gets its information from various database files on your system (in /var/lib/rpm ) to determine what is already installed. The problem is that, say you installed mozilla from a tar.gz file, then rpm doesn't have this info in its database and will stop with dependency errors if you try to install a rpm which depends on mozilla. As far as rpm is concerned it's not installed.

You can choose to ignore dependencies but its not recommended for obvious reasons. If you have missing or lower version rpms then the solution is to get the required rpms and install those first. A good source is

http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/

. If you have higher versions installed you can downgrade by doing (as root) :

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage oldpackagename.rpm

Hope this helps

 

[mg911]

so if i downgrade is that bad - and if i by pass the dependancy thing - it says that i dont have the correct environment or something to that effect - but i downloaded the RPM for linux - how could i have the incorrect environment

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

It can get quite complex because to try to install an earlier version of a rpm may trigger other dependency issues. Because of the pace of change and frequency with which packages are enhanced and re-released you sometimes get a situation where a rpm is built at a point in time when, say, version 1.0 of package_x was out and that is now version 1.5 . Quite often a dependency will be for something like package_x >= 1.0 in which case the 1.5 would be OK but sometimes it will state package_x = 1.0 in which case a problem arises. To find out what dependencies an uninstalled package has do :

rpm -qp --requires xxxxxxxx.rpm

(where xxxxxx.rpm is the full path/name of the rpm)

So, it all depends really. If you post the details of what error messages RPM returns you may get a more specific answer. What linux distribution & version are you using and what wine rpm are you trying to install ?

Regards