To consolidate the instructions for running Aurora under Wine, allow me to present the following.
I am running Wine 1.5.10, on Ubuntu 10.04
Assuming that you have compiled Wine and installed its dependencies, you should now perform the following steps,
IN ORDER.- Create a fresh wineprefix. I prefer to do this by removing the existing prefix in some fashion, such as renaming it, and then entering the commands "wineserver -k" and then "wineboot".
- After generating a fresh wineprefix, use winetricks to install the following package: "vb6run"
- Now, you must force Wine to acknowledge the existence of several dlls. Specifically, you need to register "ole32.dll" and "oleaut32.dll", which are already present in your wineprefix by default. My preferred method for doing this is to use the following commands: "regsvr32 ole32.dll" and "regsvr32 oleaut32.dll"
- Install the program commonly known to Aurora users as the "Simple Shutdown Timer" in this wineprefix.
- Using WINECFG, set overrides for the dlls "ole32.dll" and "oleaut32.dll" to "Native, then Builtin"
- Install Aurora as per the standard instructions.
- Run Aurora by running the file Aurora.exe
- Rule the Galaxy!
On my machine, at least, this allows me to run Aurora without any problems. So far, that is.