PlayonLinux issue. Can't install any versions of Wine.

jmgibson1981 · 04-21-2020, 11:51 AM

I've posted this issue before a long time ago. I gave up then because decided I didn't want LTSP as I didn't have the hardware at the time to do it right. Lately it has come back and I've decided to revisit it. With the free time these days it seemed like something to work on. PlayOnLinux cannot download versions. This seems to happen regardless of what version of Wine I download. Here is a total terminal output from running PlayOnLinux trying to install wine version 3.20. As mentioned this happens regardless of version chosen. I had this issue back when the highest version was like 1 or 2.?. Don't recall. A few years ago at least. This is a clean installation using LTSP. Thus far I've been able to do everything. VirtualBox for example worked straightaway on installation to the chroot.

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Code:

jason@homewrecker:~/Documents$ playonlinux 2>&1 | tee pol.log
Looking for python... 2.7.17 - selected
[main] Message: PlayOnLinux (4.2.12) is starting
[clean_tmp] Message: Cleaning temp directory
[Check_OpenGL] Warning: check_dd_x86 missing, test skipped
[Check_OpenGL] Warning: check_dd_amd64 missing, test skipped
[POL_System_CheckFS] Message: Checking filesystem for /home/jason/.PlayOnLinux/
[main] Message: Filesystem is compatible
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: ScreenCap...
[install_plugins] Message: Checking plugin: PlayOnLinux Vault...
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
wget-log: Permission denied; disabling logging.
[update_check] Message: Web version : 1587405894
[update_check] Message: Current local version : 
[update_check] Message: Updating list

Redirecting output to ‘wget-log.1’.
[POL_SetupWindow_Init] Message: Creating new window for pid 3618
[POL_System_SetArch] Message: POL_ARCH set to x86
[POL_Wine_InstallVersion] Message: Installing wine version path: 3.20, x86
Server sha1 : c750546dd51861303153b8fce32ee308fe5fffff
Client sha1 : c750546dd51861303153b8fce32ee308fe5fffff
PlayOnLinux package manager: 4.2.12

Opening /home/jason/.PlayOnLinux/tmp/PlayOnLinux-wine-3.20-linux-x86.pol
Extracting: /home/jason/.PlayOnLinux/tmp/PlayOnLinux-wine-3.20-linux-x86.pol...
tar: wineversion/3.20/lib/libwine.so: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: wineversion/3.20/lib/libwine.so.1: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: wineversion/3.20/bin/wineg++: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
This file: /home/jason/.PlayOnLinux/tmp/PlayOnLinux-wine-3.20-linux-x86.pol isn't a valid PlayOnLinux package!
[POL_Wine_Install_resources] Message: Installing gecko for wine 3.20 x86
[POL_Wine_Install_resources] Message: Linking gecko
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/jason/.PlayOnLinux//wine/linux-x86/3.20/share/wine/gecko': No such file or directory
[POL_Wine_Install_resources] Message: Installing wine_gecko-2.40-x86.msi
[POL_Download] Message: Downloading http://wine.playonlinux.com/gecko/x86/wine_gecko-2.40-x86.msi

Redirecting output to ‘wget-log.2’.
[POL_Config_Write] Message: Config write: LAST_TIMESTAMP 1587405894
[POL_Download] Message: Download MD5 matches
[POL_Wine_Install_resources] Message: Installing mono for wine 3.20 x86
[POL_Wine_Install_resources] Message: Linking mono
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/home/jason/.PlayOnLinux//wine/linux-x86/3.20/share/wine/mono': No such file or directory
[POL_Wine_Install_resources] Message: Installing wine-mono-4.5.6.msi
[POL_Download] Message: Downloading http://wine.playonlinux.com/mono/wine-mono-4.5.6.msi
[POL_Download] Message: Download MD5 matches
[POL_SetupWindow_Close] Message: Closing window for pid 3618

jmgibson1981 · 04-21-2020, 02:46 PM

Apologies. Forgot to specify Ubuntu 18.04.

wet1 · 04-22-2020, 05:13 AM

From: Linux newbie with a bit of programming knowledge. Three weeks ago, installed a clean installation Mint 19.1 based on Ubuntu 18.04, to start learning bash and scripting, to address a problem in a POL installation.
If you have Ubuntu 18.04 then you should have wine 4.0, and the older versions of wine are accessible. To check what you have, in terminal, you would type "apt update" and then "wine --version".
The POL scripts, available from the POL site, used to install Windows software, rely on a certain version of wine in your Linux. In the POL script these statements seem to set the version:

[ "$PLAYONLINUX" = "space" ] && exit 0
source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/sources"
...
WORKING_WINE_VERSION="3.0.3"
...
# Setting prefix path
POL_Wine_SelectPrefix "$PREFIX"
...
# Downloading wine if necessary and creating prefix
POL_System_SetArch "auto" ## arch=win64
POL_Wine_PrefixCreate "$WORKING_WINE_VERSION"

On my system, the directory /lib/sources is not found with “ls -al”. The question here is how $PLAYONLINUX provides a valid path name if it is a space.
The code for POL_System_SetArch and POL_Wine_PrefixCreate is not visible in the script, so they must be in a library file.
This might not answer your question but hopefully points you in the right direction. Please let me know if you get any where as I will be happy to try stuff and respond. Thanks.