michaelc Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 I found this funny. This is what I got when I tried to Wine the itunes setup: Pretty sweet. :huh: mC [moved from Talk-Talk by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Run winecfg and then change from auto-detect to Windows 2000 or XP. It's probably set to Windows 98, which is why it's not working for you. Although, not all apps will install through wine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 (edited) Wine just tries protecting you from installing that "thing"... that's all! :P Edited September 21, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 Hey guys you don't get the point! This should be in talk-talk! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 21, 2006 Report Share Posted September 21, 2006 there's a point? the error fits. he's not running windows 2000 or xp...i seem to have missed the humour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 there's a point? the error fits. he's not running windows 2000 or xp...i seem to have missed the humour. Humor aside, you can set the installer as a 2000/XP application via "winecfg". But, iTunes 7 won't even manage to install properly, while iTunes 6 will install, but operate with loads of glitches and issues. iTunes is a BAD jukebox, even when run natively, and Linux has a couple of applications which immitate its looks (e.g gtkpod), and while being equally disfunctional, they do have MORE options than the Apple sort- of-application... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 It looks a bit like a specific humor, and I am in an awkward position explaining "the point", but I did say "A", so here's my "B": the funny part here is that iTunes is an Apple's program that insists that you should be running Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 the funny part here is that iTunes is an Apple's program that insists that you should be running Windows. Actually the first version of it was for MACOS, and the current version is also native on MACOSX 10.3.9+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 the funny part here is that iTunes is an Apple's program that insists that you should be running Windows. That would be because he's installing the windows version of the program. There is also the MacOS version, which wouldn't work under wine - because it's a MacOS program, not a Windows program :P Therefore, I am still missing the humour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted September 22, 2006 Report Share Posted September 22, 2006 Maybe the confusion is over whether this error message is coming from a Linux box or a Mac. It was never explicitly said that this is Linux and that screengrab does look like it could be a Mac!! In which case, trying to get the Windows version of iTunes to run inside Wine inside a Mac would indeed be silly. But trying to do that on Linux would not. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelc Posted September 23, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 23, 2006 The humour I found was that Wine is made to get you around OS limitations, but here it is telling me that it didn't do its job very well. And yes, this is a linux system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 24, 2006 Report Share Posted September 24, 2006 The humour I found was that Wine is made to get you around OS limitations, but here it is telling me that it didn't do its job very well. newsflash - it can't run everything :P - you can't expect great feats from reverse engineered code. especially when the program you're trying to use has so many proprietery things in it, that it's almost insane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelc Posted September 24, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2006 I know, I just thought it was funny. You needn't rain on my parade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted September 24, 2006 Report Share Posted September 24, 2006 i'm not trying to...sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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