Specifically, I cannot get Wine to install correctly apparently, nor run, on two computers. I have tried every method I know about or have learned about to do so, and none works. I have read, and printed off, everything I could find on the web and in the Handbook and on this forum about this before I ever started.
Yesterday, I finished the main part of the installation of FreeBSD on this computer, which is our main office computer, and every other application I have so far installed works just fine...except Wine.
I first attempted to install i386-wine via pkg install i386-wine
AFTER I did the same with wine-mono and wine-gecko (since both were supposedly "necessary"), then did i386-wine. The installations appeared to go forward without problems.
But, when I then attempted to run MS-Word, it hung for several seconds, then just quietly quit. I then attempted to run another WIndows program, specifically, my Pegasus e-mail client. The same thing happened.
I then did pkg delete (program)
for all three, then installed them all via the individual ports. That took a lot longer than doing it via the packages, and included what seemed to me to be a lot of additional (supporting?} programs. I got the same result when attempting to run any MS program as before.
I then deleted everything, leaving out of the process both wine-mono and wine-gecko, reinstalled only i386-wine, and attempted to run MS programs via Wine and got the same result.
Then I deleted everything, and tried doing as before, but with Wine (64 bit?). Same result, for both methods.
Now, FYI, I have mounted my MS drives (I have three separate drives in one computer, and two in this one) via the necessary methods, installing Fuse, making the appropriate edits to /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf, then doing ntfs-3g /dev/ada0s2 /media/Win10
. I can easily find the drive, and its contents.
I run FreeBSD on both computers from one of those separate bare drives in each computer.
But getting any MS program, even the most simple, to run with Wine fails every time. I am about to give up on it. I can live without it, although if I am really going to stop using Win10 as much as possible, this is making it very inconvenient.
Ken Gordon