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Hy everyone ... i`m new at playonlinux. I got the package from the website, installed it, it said that the installation was succesefull, i rebooted and when i tryied to launch POL nothing happened. I did a google search, i read all "POL won`t start" topics from here, tryied to launch from terminal too ... nothing. No errors, no nothing ... what can i do ? can u pls give me an advice guys ? :cry: I`m running Suse 10.2. Tnx

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I did a google search, i read all "POL won`t start" topics from here
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I suppose you read
"Solutions for frequent problems" then please give the name of the package you installed and post what is in terminal when you type
playonlinux

Edited by NSLW

i read all the posts from Solutions for frequent problems ... but nothing. i tryied everything that i found on that google search and from this forums. and nothing happends when i type playonlinux in my terminal. it just stands there forever ... until i press CTRL + C and finish the process. if i hit POL icon from my Start menu ... nothing ... just the icon bouncing and it dissapears after a while without errors, if i type in terminal playonlinux ...nothing ... no errors, no nothing ... I checked with Yast too ... all dependecies are ok ... i don`t know what to do .

Ops ... sorry .. i forgot to tell u the name of the package : PlayOnLinux-3.4-1.pm.1.noarch.rpm for Suse 10.2

Try the same with generic package which is here

Unpack it to your home directory then do:
cd ~/playonlinux
./playonlinux

Edited by NSLW

:@ nothing happends ... the same thing...it`s just standing there and again i have to press CTRL + C to kill process:sad:eXodus:/home # cd playonlinux/
eXodus:/home/playonlinux # ./playonlinux

Edited by Rudy

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the same thing...
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Now we are sure it wasn't wrongly packaged or installed.
Do the same happen on freshly created user account?

Do the same happen on freshly created user account?

What do u mean by that ? Sry .. i don`t understand ... be more specific pls

Before you login to your OpenSuse you have to choose User and give password for that user. I wanted you to create a new account (temporary) , login to it and check if you can start playonlinux.

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well ... i installed POL on my account, but i did all the installation with root power !

i installed POL on my account

Now create another account (not yours, not root) and check if you can run playonlinux on another account (not yours, not root). You musn't again install playonlinux on this another account (not yours, not root).

Edited by NSLW

Done that ... still same problem ! Still doesn`t do anything ... and i looked into yast and it says : Protected -- Do not modify ! What`s that !? Why is it protected ? and why can`t i modify it ?

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i looked into yast and it says : Protected -- Do not modify !
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I do not use OpenSuse. You have to figure it out on yourself. I doubt it may be the source of your problem, because you cannot run generic package too. However you can try to make it unprotected or uninstal playonlinux then download "PlayOnLinux-3.4-1.pm.1.noarch.rpm" on your desktop (on your personal -non root- account) and double click on it and enter password but only if prompted.

Edited by NSLW

Ok .. tnx for all the help . have a good day !

Do you use 64 bit OpenSuse?

Hi Rudy,

Let's try to slightly modify a PlayOnLinux's file to make POL more talkative when run from a terminal (to get error messages to know from where the problem comes).

In order to avoid breaking your openSUSE rpm package, we will do this change in another version of POL.
So download the generic package then extract it in your normal user's home directory. You'll get a playonlinux directory.
We will modify the file called "source" in ~/playonlinux/lib/
Add the following code line at the beginning of the file: set -x So your file should now looks like this:

set -x
if [ ! "$INCLUDED" ]then
	INCLUDED="1"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/variables"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/check_depend"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/games"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/main"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/interface"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/interface_v3"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/wine"
	source "$PLAYONLINUX/lib/plugins"

	cfg_check 
	construire_repertoire_personnel
	if [ ! -d "$HOME/.PlayOnLinux/configurations/listes" ]
	then
		maj_check --first
	fi
	fonts_install
fi

Finally, in a terminal, go to ~/playonlinux/ and type ./playonlinux to run this modified version.
Thus, you should see error messages and we could tell you what to do to solve the problems.

Bye

Edited by Ghostofkendo