Comments: TntMPD 3.0.39 and TntConnect 3.2 r9 Install on Ubuntu 14.04.02 with Unity

Hi Andre, please post your question on the forums if you still need help.  This area is for commenting on the FAQ article about running TNT on Ubuntu.

Thanks for the updated guide - it worked perfectly.

Hi,

I'm having the same problem mentioned above --  I try to open a saved database from inside WINE, and it wants it to be in either My Documents or the Desktop.  I've tried it in both "virtual" folders -- Documents and Desktop -- but apparently TntConnect parses the file path and see that even though it appears to originate from the C: drive, it has a a prefix going back even further to a Z: drive.  Is this a security feature?

Clicking on the link "Search for database" apparently worked for JennyBeth (above), but it continues to gives me the same error.  I've tried every way I can think of to open it through WINE, and I continue to get this error.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much!

I tried installing TNTConnect 3.5r11 on Linux Mint 19 using the Play on Linux.I get a "serious problem" error on the install and no details. In the past on Linux you had to install the version that had been released with a mac install. But I can not find the 3.5 r10 download.

I am trying to do the install on a new computer I got last week.

How do I find the Wine compatible version or is that no longer a requirement?

Kenneth Klay

Hi Kenneth, I also recently upgraded to Linux Mint 19. I did a lot of trial and error with versions of Wine in PoL and didn't get anything to work. Something in the Linux Mint 19 upgrade doesn't seem to play nice with the older versions of Wine. I gave up and started using a VirtualMachine running Windows 10 to run TNT. Let me know if you do find a solution. Tnt DID work in Linux Mint 18.3 and earlier for me.

I do not think I posted my question clearly. Where can I download old versions of TNTConnect like 3.5 r10? It would also be good to know the version of Wine that was used for the Mac version 3.5 r10. That should be the correct combination to try on Linux.

download.tntware.com/.../archive has the archives. Let me know if you get something working on Mint 19.

Frederick,

thanks for the walk-through.  My old install broke for some reason, so I needed to update/re-install.  This was a big help.

Very straight forward and worked great.  Especially like the tip about moving the shortcut so it can be found by unity search.

thanks again

Jeff

Thank you. This worked well. I had earlier tried installing using wine, but without using POL, but it failed while trying to install the XLM 6 package.

Graham

The KEY is 32-bit environment! XML Parser will fail to install on 64-bit Wine. But you don't need POL - just "create a 32 bit wineprefix on a 64 bit system". From the WineHQ Wiki FAQ 7.2:

"At present there are some significant bugs that prevent many 32 bit applications from working in a 64 bit wineprefix. To work around this, you can create a new 32 bit wineprefix using the WINEARCH environment variable. In a terminal, type:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=path_to_wineprefix winecfg

(use the actual path to the wineprefix), then install your 32 bit application(s) to that wineprefix.

"Do not manually create the directory before running that command; Wine must create it. WINEARCH only needs to be set when creating the wineprefix, and the architecture of an existing wineprefix cannot be changed."

Then the installer will be able to download everything it needs.

ScottK

Thanks for this post; I was getting various errors just trying to install it via the default WINE, but this worked like a charm to install. However, it throws an error every time I try to open my database:

he database can not be opened on the C:\ drive because it is not in your "My Documents" or "Desktop" directory.

Database = Z:\home\jennybeth\.PlayOnLinux\\wineprefix\TnTMPD\dosdevices\c:\users\jennybeth\Desktop\JennyBeth.mpddb

My Documents = C:\users\jennybeth\My Documents

Desktop = C:\users\jennybeth\Desktop.

This is even though I have Wine configured to link the virtual My Documents to the Documents folder in Linux, under which I have the folder for my mission organization, and then my mpd under the fundraising directory. Just for funsies, I tried moving it to the top level of Documents, and to Desktop, and opening it from there, and I still get the same error. A possible issue might be that the virtual drive C in my file browser shows the actual contents of "My Documents" is my home folder rather than my Documents folder, even though the Wine Configuration folder shows that it links to Documents rather than home. Did I mess up in the installation? Anyone know how to fix it?

*edit* You can probably figure this out, but the error as I copied it was after I tried it from the Desktop folder rather than from in my Documents.

Ken Klay found a solution for me. In the "Please select a database" dialog, clicking "Search for a Database" under "Other options" near the bottom, rather than trying to open it under "Open an existing database," allowed me to navigate to and open it.

I followed this tutorial and I successfully installed TNTConnect v3.1 r10.  It seems to run fine, but when I shut it down it says that "TNTConnect has encountered a serious error and needs to close."  Any ideas?    

Hello, can someone please help me? I cannot create a new database. How do I do this?

Cheers,

André