back in Galway - wine installation problem

[Algoldore]

Wine install problem

>>Hi to all,
>>I'm back in Galway from my journey around Central and Northern America. I wonder when and where is the next meeting?

>> Now I've also a question. I'm trying to install wine to be able to install google sketch up on my Ubuntu 11.04 machine. I've got a bit of help already here is how far I got, still thou not all the way through.

>> Thanks for the tip

sudo chown -hR algoldor /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks

>> I've tried it with this "error" message as result

algoldor@salixis:~$ sudo chown -hR algoldor /home/algoldor/.cache/
winetricks
[sudo] password for algoldor:
algoldor@salixis:~$ sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 vcrun2005
Executing w_do_call corefonts
Executing load_corefonts
Executing mkdir -p /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
Downloading http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
to /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
--2011-06-05 05:56:40-- 
http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
Resolving easynews.dl.sourceforge.net... 69.16.168.245
Connecting to easynews.dl.sourceforge.net|69.16.168.245|:80... failed:
Connection timed out.
Giving up.

------------------------------------------------------
Downloading http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
failed

>> I'm connected to Internet without problems so I do not know what would be next trick to do. Any further suggestions?

>> Thanks a lot for help,
>> Sincerely,
>> Frantisek


----- Original Message ----
From: Mickey Sun <mic...@gmail.com>
To: Frantisek Apfelbeck <algo...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 12:35:54 AM
Subject: Re: [sf-lug] google sketch up and wine problem

It looks like file permissions are messed up in your .cache/winetricks
directory try:

sudo chown -hR algoldor /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks

Run winetricks after that and you should be able to install.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Frantisek Apfelbeck
<algo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I'm trying to install google sketch up on my linux system (11.04) fallowing
>>>this manual
>
> http://ubuntuguide.net/install-google-sketchup-cad-style-app-in-ubuntu-using-wine
>
>
>>> As usually it doesn't work at least not for me. When I'm trying to "install"
>>>the winetricks it gave me this message
>
>
> algoldor@salixis:~$ sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 vcrun2005
> fixme:system:SetProcessDPIAware stub!
> fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x33cbdc
> fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyAddrChange (Handle 0xa6ee8d8, overlapped 0xa6ee8e0): stub
> wine: configuration in '/home/algoldor/.wine' has been updated.
> Executing w_do_call corefonts
> Executing load_corefonts
> Executing mkdir -p /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts':
> Permission denied
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Note: command 'mkdir -p /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts' returned
> status 1.  Aborting.
>
>
>>> I've tried the sudo, I get this
>
> algoldor@salixis:~$ sudo sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 vcrun2005
> [sudo] password for algoldor:
> wine: /home/algoldor/.wine is not owned by you
> ------------------------------------------------------
> wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string
>
>
>>> I've tried to go around it and created the directory by myself but in that case
>>>I get this error message
>
> algoldor@salixis:~$ sudo mkdir -p /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
> algoldor@salixis:~$ sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 vcrun2005
> Executing w_do_call corefonts
> Executing load_corefonts
> Executing mkdir -p /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
> Downloading
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
> to /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
> arial32.exe: Permission denied
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Downloading
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
> failed
>
>>> I've tried to fallow this manual
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=700801
>
>>> It gives me after that this error message
>
>
> algoldor@salixis:~$ sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6 vcrun2005
> Executing w_do_call corefonts
> Executing load_corefonts
> Executing mkdir -p /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
> Downloading
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
> to /home/algoldor/.cache/winetricks/corefonts
> arial32.exe: Permission denied
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Downloading
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/corefonts/the%20fonts/final/arial32.exe
> failed
>
>
>>> I do not know what is going on. I've all administration privileges and I'm
>>>installing/downloading to my home directory so where is the problem?
>>>
>
>>> I know that I could use several hours of searching for the answer but I've
>>>several other things which I've to go through so if anyone could help it would
>>>be appreciated.
>
>>> Thanks for any hint,
>
>>> Sincerely,
>
>>> Frantisek
>
>
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