[Wine] Can't install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable

[James McKenzie]

Bob Morane wrote:
> vitamin wrote:
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>> There are few known issues with that. Use winetricsk to install msvc runtime: http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks
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> That's what i did, but it didn't work that well.
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> James McKenzie wrote:
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>> You need to try the last item with a clean wine. 
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> I was 99% positive that's what i did. Looks like i fell in the other 1%. Completely removed wine and .wine directory, reinstalled wine and tried again. Winetricks allowed me to install vcrun2005 this time.
> Note : it didn't install in system32 but in strangely named sub-folders of the winsxs folder.
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> Now i don't get dll errors, but the app fails to initialize it's openGL display.
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> Code:
> WARNING: 3DConnexion Plug-in Error: Could not create Device, CoCreateInstance failed
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> I tried reverting to metacity instead of compiz-fusion with metacity --replace before running it, it didn't help.
> Looks like i'll keep my windows partition in the end. Thanks for your help.
>   
You need to remove both compiz and Metacity.  No extenders will work 
with Wine right now.

James McKenzie