BBO install problems

[F6driver]

I have tried ALL the variants of installation for BB that I have read.

Downloaded BBO 4.7.5

Using PCLinuxOS

wine 0.9.1-4 tex

Have SYMBOL ttf

installed and successfully registered mosctlx

in the BBOVER.INI file I have WINE=Y

Have tried BROWSER TYPE=A,E, and C

Have atl.dll and msvcrt.dll in system32 dir.

Tried the WINEDLLOVERRIDES for BROWSER and atl.dll

have tried winecfg for wine to look like win98, 2000, and XP

 

The results are always the same when I go to BBO

I log in okay

It downloads tables

the welcome pop-up comes up and I close it

the Lobby news pop-up comes up and I am fried!

It says the Latest Brdge Base Online news is not responding and asks

if I want to terminate.

end of story.

 

I am reading all the different advice and instructions on this site (and others) and have tried them all (I think) except something about LIN.SH

I do not understand what this is referring to or what to do about it.

Can this LIN.SH thing (lack of it) be giving me the Bridge Base errors I am getting?

my shell window gives me the same output that TYlerE posted here on February 1, 2006 and DATAKID posted on APRIL 27, 2006 ie: yada yada yada..no classfactory created for CLSID stuff, and the MSVCRT pmode 0x0164 Ignored

 

I am new to LINUX, am tired of the Windows empire, but I love to play BRIDGE and have spent two solid weeks trying to make BBO work with wine to no avail, I honestly am so frustrated with all the smoke and mirrors that don't work that I am about to crawl back to Bill Gates. I DON"T WANT TO !

 

How can I make BBO work without Bill G. ?

 

 

I am a user not a programmer. Thank goodness I have some experience with iRMX ! I admire the work and support/advice/help that you folks put into this, but there are so many flavors of linux and apparently of wine (and what is winex?) that things do get a might bit confusing to me.

I am open to anything.............. patches?........ VMWARE?..... whatever will work.

So all I can say is Thanks in Advance,

that, and: Please help me?

[Gerardo]

try LINUX_WINE=Y instead of WINE=Y