Problem Installing wine.

hasmeet.singh337 · 01-15-2011, 12:21 AM

hi everybody,
I am trying to install wine on my rhel5 operating system. when i used a command rpm -ivh wine-981025-1.i386.rpm i get a message that..

package wine-981025-1.i386 is already installed

but i don't get it(Wine file etc..) in Applications tab

of my system. I tried uninstalling it and installing again but the same thing is happening again.

Please help.....

Thanks in Advance.

Person_1873 · 01-15-2011, 01:22 AM

hello, wine is indeed already installed, it does not produce a menu entry on installation, rather when you install a program within wine, try running winecfg from the command line

EDDY1 · 01-15-2011, 01:28 AM

If wine isn't showing up in menu
go to System>Preferences>Menu
check box for wine to make visible.

Aigarzs · 01-15-2011, 02:13 AM

On Slackware I had to run winecfg to create wine settings for user and make wine to work.

hasmeet.singh337 · 01-15-2011, 02:30 AM

Without getting wine file in applications accessories ......How can i install some program????

Quote:

Originally Posted by Person_1873

hello, wine is indeed already installed, it does not produce a menu entry on installation, rather when you install a program within wine, try running winecfg from the command line

EDDY1 · 01-15-2011, 02:45 AM

Did you look under
System>Prefences
or
Applications>other

hasmeet.singh337 · 01-15-2011, 03:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

Did you look under
System>Prefences
or
Applications>other

ya i have checked.....but still i didn't got...wine file etc

MTK358 · 01-15-2011, 08:33 AM

Use the command line.

Run winecfg to configure Wine, and wine path/to/windows/executable.exe to run a Windows executable.

hasmeet.singh337 · 01-18-2011, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MTK358

Use the command line.

Run winecfg to configure Wine, and wine path/to/windows/executable.exe to run a Windows executable.

winecfg.....not working....

TobiSGD · 01-18-2011, 08:48 AM

What do you mean with "not working"? We can only help you if you give us the errormessages you get.

@EDDY1: wine is not a graphical application, it is a commandline tool. Therefore you will get no entry in the menu.

EDDY1 · 01-18-2011, 09:34 AM

I apoligize if it's not graphical on other os'es but on debian it is.

Person_1873 · 01-26-2011, 05:28 PM

could you please do all suggestions from the command line, that way if something doesn't work then you can post the error messages

TobiSGD · 01-26-2011, 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

I apoligize if it's not graphical on other os'es but on debian it is.

I am using Debian Sid, and wine itself is not a graphical tool. winecfg is indeed, and the uninstaller, too. Other than those, I only get menu-entrys for programs installed via wine.

But may be this is only a misunderstanding.
Anyways, we have to see the error-messages for further help with this.

EDDY1 · 01-26-2011, 06:09 PM

I don't knowq why but my lenny installation had wine installed from first boot< at that time I never found a reason to actually use it with various problems I was having just learning how to use the system, maybe it's time for me to boot up the optiplex and see what it was that I thought was actually wine at least inquire.

TobiSGD · 01-26-2011, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EDDY1

I don't knowq why but my lenny installation had wine installed from first boot

That is astonishing, wine was never part of a standard installation, and cannot be selected at install time in Debian.