Falcon 4.0: Allied Force Forum

I have just moved to Mint 12 from Ubuntu 10.10 and have had no success in installing Crossover over the past day. I have downloaded the package endless times and managed to extract the files and they are sitting in a folder Debian in the home folder. Actually they are also duplicated in a folder Downloaded Systems.

After that I am at a total loss as to what to do. I have tried all the commands in the tutorial with no success. Software Manager and Synaptics are not able to help either.

This must be possible but it does not appear to be the one click installation as advised in the tutorials.

I wonder whether there is any solution to this problem?

Hi,

...with respect, I wonder why you are posting here about the problem
you have, when this forum is devoted to issues with Falcon 4.0? Not
that I mind, but for reference the General forums is the place for this...

...I have to suspect that your problem is actually yourself...or rather,
your procedure. For example, you would never download a .deb software
package, and end up extracting it ; that just doesn't happen (or rather,
that's not what you want to do with a .deb package)...

...I think you're getting things confused ... '1 Click Install' refers to
application installation via crossties, it does not refer to installing
crossover itself, and, the linux tutorial regarding crossover installation
doesn't even mention '1 click' at all...;

http://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/linux/linuxtutorial/install

....personally, and especially if you're the only user of your computer,
I would use the 'generic' (.bin) installer rather than a .deb package..

Cheers!

Try using gdebi to install your deb (assuming it's available for Mint 12 - I have it on Mint 11, and on an Ubunto 11.10 box, so it should be installable).

First, you'll need to see if gdebi is installed - open up Synaptic and search for gdebi. You'll want gdebi-core and gdebi installed.

Once you know you have gdebi installed, open up a terminal and cd into where you downloaded (probably in Downloads, so "cd ~/Downloads") and then type "sudo gdebi NAME_OF_DEB_FILE". Enter your password and the deb file will be installed (any dependencies will automatically be installed as well).