Winetricks does not update

[rijnhard]

Hi

On: Linux mint 17.3 (ubuntu 14.04) QtWine 1.3 from technik ppa

when i try to update winetricks (inside qt4wine) I get this in terminal:

/bin/bash: /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks -O /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks && /bin/chmod +x /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks": No such file or directory

but if I run the commands manually in terminal it works, sort of.

# does not work
$ ./home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks
bash: cd: /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks: Not a directory

# works
$ cd /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/
$ ./winetricks

[brezerk]

Thanks for the bug report.

Can you show output of this command please:

ls -al /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks

Thanks. On Jun 17, 2016 05:02, "Rijnhard Hessel" notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi

On: Linux mint 17.3 (ubuntu 14.04) QtWine 1.3 from technik ppa

when i try to update winetricks I get this in terminal:

/bin/bash: /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks -O /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks && /bin/chmod +x /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks": No such file or directory

but if I run the commands manually in terminal it works, sort of.

does not work

$ ./home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks bash: cd: /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks: Not a directory

works

$ cd /home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/ $ ./winetricks

— You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub https://github.com/brezerk/q4wine/issues/77, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe/AABdDAejnMwK62AYv2Z6L8a8vf-j5qTEks5qMmKqgaJpZM4I4Ke6 .

[rijnhard]

Ok so i changed that. it wasn't downloading so I downloaded it manually and overwrote the original. So I'm not sure if that was a problem. but the manual download I did was owned by root, which I changed to my user.

unfortunately I can't confirm the issue. but I will try to uninstall q4wine and reinstall it and do before and after

[brezerk]

Not sure too. The only thing I can do here: to add some checks to produce much more user-friendly error.

[brezerk]

This commit https://github.com/brezerk/q4wine/commit/c7cf08f7a147642afd85952f65db6a5722d6a495 adds few checks to produce more user-friendly messages if designated winetricks file or folder has wrong permissions.

Thanks for reporting.

Reopen if needed.

[rijnhard]

this has come back

/bin/bash: env WINEPREFIX='/home/rijnhard/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win10x86-stable' WINE='/opt/wine-stable/bin/wine' WINEDLLPATH='/opt/wine-stable/lib/wine' WINELOADER='/opt/wine-stable/bin/wine' WINESERVER='/opt/wine-stable/bin/wineserver' WINEARCH='win32' /bin/sh -c "/home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks --no-isolate dotnet48": No such file or directory

the funny thing is the directory exists and is owned by my user, I manually installed the winetricks script again, but now i cant install any dll's

[rijnhard]

again if I run it manually it works

[brezerk]

hm... it looks like for some reasons your bash is taking ENTIRE line as a single command. i.e.:

brezerk@himera ~ $ 'make all good'
bash: make all good: command not found

instead of running make and sullying all good as an arguments:

brezerk@himera ~ $ make all good 
make: *** No rule to make target 'all'.  Stop.

this makes me think that it is something to do with terminal program on it's arguments you specified in q4wine settings.

can you send me yor ~/.config/q4wine/default.conf to my mail?

[brezerk]

yeah

you are using bash as gui terminal :) this is a bit unexpected. but anyway, let me see i can proved any workaround:

 71 [console]                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
 72 args=                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
 73 bin=/bin/bash  

[brezerk]

on the other hand, it does not makes any seance to use bash as you won't be able to see the winetricks output b/c it would be running in background.

can you try to use xterm instead?

[rijnhard]

@brezerk did you mean to set the terminal as xterm?

this happens

/usr/bin/xterm: No absolute path found for shell: env WINEPREFIX='/home/rijnhard/.local/share/wineprefixes/Win10x86-stable' WINE='/opt/wine-stable/bin/wine' WINEDLLPATH='/opt/wine-stable/lib/wine' WINELOADER='/opt/wine-stable/bin/wine-preloader' WINESERVER='/opt/wine-stable/bin/wineserver' WINEARCH='win32' /bin/sh -c "/home/rijnhard/.config/q4wine/winetricks --no-isolate allcodecs"

[brezerk]

@rijnhard yes, you need to install it. also, you need to supply -c as an option:

       -c        If the -c option is present, then commands are read from the first non-option argument command_string.  If there are arguments after the command_string, the first argument is assigned to $0 and any remaining argu‐
                 ments are assigned to the positional parameters.  The assignment to $0 sets the name of the shell, which is used in warning and error messages.

btw: you may try to use this option for bash too.

[rijnhard]

so my xterm no longer has a -c option. and doing it with bash lead to the output being hidden.

Playing around this is what worked, but this should REALLY be documented somewhere, if you can tell me where I won't mind adding it (if I have rights).

It should either have xterm as a dependency and be preconfigured for it, or detect the configured shell and use that with presets.

[brezerk]

hi @rijnhard

i guess you don't need extra '/bin/bash -c' in arguments.

As for documentation... It looks like it is a bit outdated: https://q4wine.brezblock.org.ua/documentation/en_us/11-settings.html#userutils

Any suggestions on what would be the best description for this fields?

Thanks

[kkomara]

I had the same problem in my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. I use "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal" for my console and I could not get Winetricks to work properly. After I dug around and read these set of posts I figured it out. In the version of gnome-terminal I am using allot of the older commands are depricated. To get it to work on my system I had to add "--command " to the arguments. Not there is a blank space after the d in command. This if VERY important and took quite a bit of trail and error to find. Good Luck !

[brezerk]

Seems like resolved. Reopen if needed.