Updates Error in HL

[Mynaardt]

Hello all!

New to the forum here.

Been using HL as a player (for Pathfinder). Very handy indeed!

Having said that, I've got a question about the Updates check when you first start HL. Every time I start it, I get a "Updates Error" message at the bottom of the opening screen before starting the Pathfinder module.

When I press "Find Updates", I get an error message that indicates my firewall might be blocking this update thing.

The thing is, I am running HL on a Linux computer, using the WINE emulator. I've got my firewall set to having my Internet connection as "home" (which it is).

Does anyone know if this is a common problem running HL through WINE?

Or should I email tech support instead?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Mathias]

I'm not familiar with WINE, but this thread seems to be about similar issues: http://forums.wolflair.com/showthread.php?t=49719&highlight=wine&page=2

 

[ShadowChemosh]

You could always download the Pathfinder.hl direct from the website and install the new version that way. Only thing I can say as I don't know WINE...

 

[Mynaardt]

Hello, everyone!

I had to do a bit of asking around on the help forums for Peppermint OS (the version of Linux I use). Turns out that it was a bug with the old version of WINE (1.6), which was the one I had. Had to update WINE to the newest version (1.7.42) and now the update feature at the start of HL is working just fine!


If there are any other Linux users out there who are having the same update problem running HL through WINE, here's the fix through the terminal. This is for an Ubuntu based Linux OS. I'm not sure what the commands would be for the other Linux OS's out there:

# to ununstiall the old version of WINE, if you have one:
$ sudo apt-get remove –purge wine
# Add the repository and Install Wine 1.7.42:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.7 winetricks

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Very nice of you to come back and update the thread with an answer. Always good encase the question comes up can point back to this post.

 

[Mynaardt]

@ ShadowChemosh:

Just figured I'd do my bit.

I figured I'm probably not the only one using WINE to run HL. So, there's probably someone else who could use that information.

At least it was an easy fix.
Once I knew what I was supposed to look for, that is!

 

[Mathias]

Mynaardt, did you happen to see which specific version of WINE has the fix that's needed?

We ought to update our system requirements to note that version number requirement, and maybe our installer can detect if it's being installed on a WINE system and warn you if your version of WINE won't support automatic updates.

 

[Mynaardt]

Mynaardt, did you happen to see which specific version of WINE has the fix that's needed?

We ought to update our system requirements to note that version number requirement, and maybe our installer can detect if it's being installed on a WINE system and warn you if your version of WINE won't support automatic updates.

Hello, Mathias:

I had WINE 1.6, which was the older version HL's update feature didn't seem to play well with.

I updated to WINE 1.7, a newest version.
And Updating is working fine with WINE 1.7.
No need to do anything with TLS settings for it.

I just had a look on WINE HQ, and it's now up to version 1.8 (1.9 is in the testing stage).
I'll try updating to version 1.8 and let you know if that one works well with HL too.

 

[Mynaardt]

Hi again, All:

I thought I posted this for the Linux/WINE users of HL out there, but apparently not. Probably forgot to push "Submit" after using "Preview".

But anyway...

As I said, WINE 1.8 works with Hero Labs just fine. No issues with the updater or any of that.

If you want to update to WINE 1.8 from an older version, here are the terminal commands (for an Ubuntu build) to cut and paste:

$ sudo apt-get remove --purge wine
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks