Call me a Linux n00b if you will, but please sir, I have a question.
I'd like to 'emerge' Wine (the not-an-emulator thing for running Windows apps), but I don't quite know how to do it. I'm assuming that GentooX is preconfigured to pull these things via the Ethernet cable from the Internet whenever 'emerge' is used - then again I could completely wrong about how this works.
My problem is that while I have a reliable network connection from the PC to the Xbox, I am limited where I live to dial-up access, and furthermore (believe it or not) just AOL dial-up access, which has proprietary protocols that seems to mean it can't be used with WinXP's Internet Connection Sharing.
Is there some way that Wine can be added into GentooX using a local (previously downloaded) file on my PC? Maybe it works like this anyway - as I say I'm afraid I'm a n00b here, but at least I have the saving grace of this forum being too new to have a decent FAQ area. I wouldn't dare ask in the Xbox-Scene forum
Cheers,
tamper
(somewhere in France)
emerging Wine without an Internet connection
Re: emerging Wine without an Internet connection
Hi Tamper,
Winex is included with Gentoox Home. Is this what you're looking for? Check the tutorials for instructions.
Hav a good 1
Hex
Wine is just as unstable as winex in my opinion. If you dont have a network connection, i wouldnt bother with emerge/ portage - just get the source tarball from http://www.winehq.org, copy it over to your xbox's E partition, then in Gentoox do the following
1) Open a console/ konsole
2) su -
3) enter root password
4) cp /mnt/fatx/e/wine.xxxx.tar.gz /tmp
5) cd /tmp
6) tar -zxvf ./wine.xxxx.tar.gz
7) cd ./wine
8) pico -w ./README
Then follow the instructions on compiling - goodluck!
1) Open a console/ konsole
2) su -
3) enter root password
4) cp /mnt/fatx/e/wine.xxxx.tar.gz /tmp
5) cd /tmp
6) tar -zxvf ./wine.xxxx.tar.gz
7) cd ./wine
8) pico -w ./README
Then follow the instructions on compiling - goodluck!