I installed wine 1.6 on my Mint 20 pc. It works beautifully. I then proceeded to install several older windows programs that I need for my graphics business. They all worked beautifully. Here's the rub, today I finally got Quark Express 7.0 (desktop publishing). When I started the installation process, it popped up with "Quark 7.0 requires a computer running Windows XP. This computer does not have XP. Then it exits. I thought I specified XP when I setup Wine, but upon investigationg, the conffiguration says Windows 7.

I tried to uninstall Wine with the Software manager. It says it uninstalled it (after 2 tries). Wine directory is gone. So, I went back to the software and hit the install button again. Went through install really quickly, but it's still showing Windows 7.0. What now?

You need to bring up the WINE control panel. Open a terminal, then enter

.....followed by hitting the 'Enter' key. After a few seconds, the WINE 'control panel' will appear. On the 'Applications' tab, you can set the version of Windows via the drop-down at the bottom. 'Apply', then 'OK'.

If the previous install of WINE was set for Windows 7 by default - most are, now - this would have still been in the config files in your home folder. An uninstall doesn't always delete everything, and older config files are often left behind.

Mike.

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Mike,

Thank you for your reply. I did look at the wine config. prior to posting my question. It showed Windows 7. As I said, after going through the uninstall in the software manager twice, I reinstalled wine but it quickly setup again without giving me any options. It showed windows 7 also after completion. I did try changing the version of Windows in the config file. I don't know it I saw a button for "apply". I will try that. I wonder, do I have to remove all the programs I installed through wine in order to remove it?

Mike

Thank you so much. I must admit (shamefaced) that I was in such a hurry that I apparently did not see the "apply" button before. I just now did exactly what you said about hitting "apply". It retained the setting. Then I was able to successfully install Quark. I have been fighting a hacker and malware files for 5 months. So, setting up my computer again for the 4th time with Linux for security. It has been a long road, full of mistakes and road blocks. I just get frustrated when another thing seems to go wrong. Your help has brightened my day. Sorry for being so dumb!

@ lankylin:-

Hey, no worries. We've all been there at some point.

Many older geeks would never admit to it; their pride won't let them, and in the early days of Linux I understand it was something of a p***ing match between users to prove who was cleverer & better at everything. Big deal. Those who've used Linux for the last 25 years often like to come across as all-seeing, all-knowing, surveying the landscape from their lofty pinnacles with a kind of wise, bemused benevolence.....yet often rarely giving anything that could actually be construed as "help"!

Me, I'm common. Common as muck. I'll help anyone, with anything, if and as I'm able to, whenever I can. I've never subscribed to the belief that knowledge is a hard-won commodity, to be jealously hoarded & guarded, and only ever to be grudgingly dispensed if, as & when that individual deems others to be "worthy" of receiving such dribbles of information as are considered worth letting go.....

And many in the community are of the very firm opinion that WINE is downright dangerous.....because it doesn't conform to the perception of Linux's 'iron-clad' security. Plus, too, there's the view that if you're serious about Linux, you shouldn't BE messing about with left-overs from your Windows past; make the switch once and for all.....and be BOLD about it..! "Fence-sitters" tend to be viewed with suspicion among the 'old guard'.

I don't care. My view is, and always has been, "Use whatever works for you", even if that means a weird melange of OSs and applications. I came across several Windows applications that I became so handy with - my passion is graphic design - and for which there just ARE no direct equivalents on this side of the fence. So I've always run them under WINE, and have become rather well-versed in that application's peculiarities.

Remember; there is NO such thing as a "dumb" question. The only "dumb" question is the one you DON'T ask....!

Mike.

Mike,

Wow, the main part of my desktop publishing business is graphic arts! I have benn using Jasc Paintshop Pro for 20 years. Like you, I am unwilling to go through the learning curve for another grahics software. While I have had hell to pay with hackers and ransome ware, I am willing to try to protect my machine better than before to continue using it.

I appreciate your helpful attitude. I have never found pride to be worth more than about 15 cents in a $20 market!

Have a good day.