Hey folks,

i am new to kubuntu and ive switched from windows 7. I have both windows 7 and kubuntu(jaunty) installed on my system. ive been exploring the wine application. i am quite accustomed to using **** ( a torrent search engine), which is the first .exe file i tried to download after installing wine. It gives me this error MSVBM60.dll is missing and is required for me to install this file. I checked up on this error on wine hq. I tried copying the mentioned dll file into sys32 directory in windows. The file is already there. Can someone please guide me so that i can install **** using wine.

Regards
kutas.

the name of the software is bit-che(i forgot to add the dash in between)

You can use winetricks, do a google search, to install VB6 libraries in your wine but, well, run VB software in linux must have some kind of bad karma .

hey,

thanks for your reply, can you elaborate what you said?

Winetricks is a script written by a contributor to Wine, that automatically installs some components.

Another suggestion is to try out the various native bittorrent clients available, like KTorrent, Azureus, or some of the other clients available in the software repositories. There may be another which suits your needs/habits. Of course, as with all things Linux, the choice is yours.

I have a few more questions:

a) How do i install winetricks

and b) what do you mean by "run VB software in linux must have some kind of bad karma" If there is a risk involved please let me know, i dont want my kubuntu crashing because of this.


Regards

Younas

I am using k torrents to download torrents, there only difference is bit-che searches all the major torrent engines and gives you all the options for the desired torrent in one window whereas ktorrent needs to be told which engine to download from and it opens everything in a seperate window and i cant get accurate searches. If there is a way out of the latter then do relay it to me.

kutas26 wrote:I have a few more questions:

a) How do i install winetricks

and b) what do you mean by "run VB software in linux must have some kind of bad karma" If there is a risk involved please let me know, i dont want my kubuntu crashing because of this.


Regards

Younas

winetricks is a script file so there is no installation method because is like a windows "bat" file. Google for linux bash shell documentation if you want to learn about linux bash scripting.

If you want a quick solution, please follow the next steps:
1) Open konsole.
2) Write the next commands in konsole and press enter after each line (you can use copy & paste):
cd ~/bin
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
winetricks vb6run

Now you have available winetricks for your user. The last instruction is for install VB 6 runtimes.

winetricks without parameters shows a window but I recommend you winetricks --help to learn something about this useful script.

About karma, is only joke , Microsoft VB is one of the worst computer languajes created but ideal for ctrl+c ctrl+v programmers. I hear that VB .Net is better, an easy task, but I don't try it because I developed an allergy to Microsoft software and monkeys .

kutas26 wrote:I am using k torrents to download torrents, there only difference is bit-che searches all the major torrent engines and gives you all the options for the desired torrent in one window whereas ktorrent needs to be told which engine to download from and it opens everything in a seperate window and i cant get accurate searches. If there is a way out of the latter then do relay it to me.

You might take a look at Azureus. I've only looked at it once before, but it is one of the top projects on Sourceforge (one of the largest collection of opensource projects online) and has a very extensive interface, that I believe will do these kinds of things.

Could you please take this discussion to a wine forum? This is reserved for KDE on Windows and has nothing to do with wine.

Moved to Linux specific (since this topic is about using Wine under Kubuntu).