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Unable to run Distance 6.0 Release 2 on Mac OS X S (10.6) (Bugzilla #109) #120

Closed dill closed 9 years ago

dill commented 9 years ago

status RESOLVED severity blocker in component 01) Installation for --- Reported in version 6.0 Release 2 on platform Macintosh Assigned to: Laura Marshall

On 2012-12-31 08:07:25 +0000, wrote:

I tried installing Distance on my Mac by using an application called Wine Bottler, that helps run Windows Apps on OS X. It was installed successfully but there is one bug that prevents it from running:

Distance internal error. The VBAJET32.dll file is missing. Error raised from Distance.ModMain.Main. Error source DAO.DbEngine. Error number 3446.

Not sure what to do.

On 2013-07-09 21:56:39 +0100, Len Thomas wrote:

It sounds like Wine doesn't contain all the components needed for the Microsoft database engine that we're using (Microsoft Jet 3.5 - as used by Access 97 - packaged within DAO 3.51) to function correctly. You could try installing Microsoft's Data Access Objects redistributable - there's a copy on the Distance Support page, under Distance 3.5 -- here's a direct link http://www.ruwpa.st-and.ac.uk/distance/downloads/daosetup.exe That's a bit out of date, so if that doesn't work with the latest Distance, then try updating it with the Microsoft DAO 3.51 service pack 3, available from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/172733

Let us know how you get on...

Meantime I've marked it as Resolved, Wont fix as we don't fully support running Distance on a Mac!