Submitted by MauiKeith on 2009/07/18 23:38
Has anyone gotten InfoQube to run on Wine?
 
How did you do it?
 
 

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MauiKeith

2009/07/19 05:23

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Thanks for the quick reply, Pierre.
 
And thanks for the link.
 
I had actually seen that before, but that's not what I'm trying to do.  The example you cited showed an installation of InfoQube running in a Windows VM on Openbox.  I'd like to get InfoQube to run directly on Wine, using as few Mirosoft components as possible (and certainly not the whole WinOS!) which is a little bit different.
 
Here's a link to the WineHQ "About Wine" page: http://www.winehq.org/about/ for anone who wants to know more about Wine.
 
I'm running Wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 (2.6.28-13-generic kernel) on an ASUS EeePC 900HD upgraded to 2G RAM.
 
0.9.24c installs with some ocx registration problems.  Program starts and quits  at once.
 
-.24d (portable) behaves similarly, but at least leaves a error log
 
 
 
Here's the error log I get:
 
 
7/18/2009 11:05:54 PM 339 3 Main>LoadUserFunctions 7/18/2009 11:05:54 PM 339 Application-defined or object-defined error(l=0) Main LoadUserFunctions ReadUserFunctions ReadFile
7/18/2009 11:05:54 PM 339 3 Main>LoadUserFunctions 7/18/2009 11:05:54 PM 339 Application-defined or object-defined error(l=0) Main LoadUserFunctions ReadFile ReadUserFunctions
7/18/2009 11:05:54 PM 339 3 Main>LoadUserFunctions 7/18/2009 11:05:54 PM 339 Application-defined or object-defined error(l=0) Main LoadUserFunctions ReadFile
 
 
Any help would be apreciated.

Armando

2009/07/19 13:36

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I agree with MauiKeith that running IQ in a VM is not the same. Of course IQ will run fine in this context... Almost anything does.
 
Wine is a different story as it allows "Windows programs [...]  to act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop". Wine can/could be used on most UNIX based OS -- Linux, Mac OS X,  etc.
 
(MauiKeith : I tried running IQ in wine too with Ubuntu 9.04... no luck. Unfortunately, I haven't been using Linux enough in the last few years to be of any help. But it would be great if someone could... As IQ running on Wine would be a big plus.  I doubt  that the pivot tables etc. would work though... but who knows, if one has some version of MS office installed and running -- Like Office 2000, maybe.)

Pierre_Admin

2009/07/20 00:20

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Have you tried installing MS Office 2003 as described here: http://www.wine-reviews.net/microsoft/running-ms-office-2003-under-linu… ?
 
Perhaps, these steps can be adapted to install IQ. I don't know if Wine support XP's registration-less COM (which is what IQ uses in portable mode), so first try with the installable flavor.
 
 
Is there any error message related to msscript.ocx ?

MauiKeith

2009/07/20 05:21

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Thanks for this lead.  I will try again on tuesday,
 
I don't have or use MS Office - I use OpenOffice natively on Linux - so I haven't instaled any flavor of ffice on Wine.
 
a nuber of .ocx controls failed to register automatiicly; I had to do so by hand and I assume they succeeded but I haven't aca checked the registry.
 
i don'y believe msscript was among them.  
 
 
keith