Wine will not download

[Frank J. R. Hanstick]

Hello,
	I have qemu installed; but, when I try to install qemu, I get the  
following:

c-24-19-199-246:~ frank$ sudo port install qemu-usermode
--->  Fetching qemu-usermode
--->  Attempting to fetch qemu-0.9.0.tar.gz from http:// 
fabrice.bellard.free.fr//qemu
--->  Attempting to fetch qemu-0.9.0.tar.gz from http:// 
svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/qemu-usermode
--->  Attempting to fetch qemu-0.9.0.tar.gz from http:// 
svn.macports.org/repository/macports/distfiles/general/
--->  Attempting to fetch qemu-0.9.0.tar.gz from http:// 
svn.macports.org/repository/macports/downloads/qemu-usermode
Error: Target org.macports.fetch returned: fetch failed
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.

Frank

On Oct 10, 2008, at 12:24 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Oct 9, 2008, at 17:02, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote:
>
>> On Oct 9, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 9, 2008, at 15:54, "Frank J. R. Hanstick" wrote:
>>>
>>>>    I have a Mac G4 PowerPC with Qemu installed and I tried to  
>>>> download
>>>> Wine; but, Wine would not download.  Is there a way to get Wine to
>>>> recognize that Qemu is present and link to it?
>>>
>>> No, MacPorts does not use software installed outside of MacPorts.  
>>> I wrote the wine ports to abort unless installed on Intel. If  
>>> there is a Qemu port that works with wine I can remove that  
>>> restriction.
>>
>> 	It is what I am trying to find out.  There is a website, http:// 
>> wiki.winehq.org/MacOSX/QemuWork, that indicates that it can be done.
>
> I'm not impressed with that page... it has formatting problems, has  
> out of date information, has broken links and typos... And it  
> doesn't say anything about actually running wine using qemu. It  
> just shows how to run a very simple sample program.
>
> qemu was an interesting project when Macs used PowerPC processors  
> and the only way to run Intel software was through emulation. Now  
> that we have Macs using Intel processors that are many times faster  
> than the fastest PowerPC Mac ever was, it seems to be a moot point;  
> buy an Intel Mac if you want to run Intel software.
>
> Still, if you want to try to get this to work on PowerPC, I see now  
> that we do have two qemu ports in MacPorts: qemu and qemu-usermode.  
> The latter sounds like what they're talking about on that wiki  
> page. You could try installing that. If that works, then you can  
> edit the wine port to remove the pre-fetch Intel processor check.  
> Then install the wine port. If it builds, see if it can be used  
> with qemu. If so, I can revise the wine port.
>
> P.S: Please remember to Reply All so your reply goes to the list  
> too, not just to me.
>
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