Wine

therion12 · 12-31-2001, 10:54 PM

I was just wondering why when i boot up linux, or switch INIT modes it always says:

Loading WINE -------------------------- [FAILED]

there is only 2 things that fail when i boot up and this is one of them. How can i make WINE work. I heard it is a nifty application for running windows stuff.

therion12 · 12-31-2001, 11:12 PM

oh btw while i'm at it...how do you link a application in the menu in KDE?

i went into the KDE Menu Editor to link Netscape 6.2 but i cant get the thing to work right. Also how do i get rid of the "pop out" effect of the menus on the panel? i must've enabled it by accident.

anoop_chandran · 12-31-2001, 11:16 PM

u must have left out something in the wine config file ,it's usually /etc/wine.conf

u need to specify every drives,like floppy,cdrom etc as A: D: as in windOS...make the necessary changes in the config file..

check this out http://www.winehq.com/Docs/

bye

Aussie · 12-31-2001, 11:26 PM

There is a switch to turn off panel icon zooming in the kde control center under look and feel-->panel. For wine you should download and install the codeweavers wine rpm.

therion12 · 12-31-2001, 11:38 PM

Thanks Aussie!

Aussie · 12-31-2001, 11:50 PM

Your welcome and happy new year *hic*

therion12 · 01-01-2002, 12:02 AM

Since i installed Wine through the RPM packager, can i find and delete the old wine that didnt work?

Also i have ran the config utillity but how do i actually start using WINE?

Aussie · 01-01-2002, 12:43 AM

Do "man wine" to get all the options but basicly you do "wine *path-to-program*.exe"

therion12 · 01-01-2002, 08:04 AM

The manuals dont help. I tried wine path to wine and its command not found.

Also i went into the configuration and it said it made a fake windows installation, but i cant find it anywhere..i saw the directory but when i try to locate it with Konquerer i cant see it.

neo77777 · 01-01-2002, 01:17 PM

Hi everybody. Happy New Year! Ihope everybody enjoyed celebrating the event and got presents.
Now back to wine issue, sorry but I am not here to help you, Therion12, I am reather here to get help from gurus like Aussie. I installed wine rpm, and according to wine manual I should have file wine.conf. Oops, I don't have it anywhere, I did rpm -qs wine and there is no wine.ini or wine.conf, but I have win.ini file, so is this the one that I should copy, rename and edit?

therion12 · 01-01-2002, 01:43 PM

Basically the same problem as Neo. But when i double click on a EXE it says "WINE application not found".

Aussie · 01-01-2002, 01:46 PM

A lot of the wine files will be in ~/.wine so you need to switch on "show hidden files " in konq...or just do "ls -al" in a terminal. For the ~/.wine/wine.conf file you can edit that by calling the codeweavers wine setup tool.

neo77777 · 01-01-2002, 01:54 PM

ok I have ~/.wine directory, but there is no wine.conf, there is config file which is the drivers for the hardware, and .reg files: userdef.reg, system.reg, user.reg

Aussie · 01-01-2002, 04:57 PM

Ok, if you installed the codeweavers wine you need to do "winesetup" to write the wine.conf file.