Hi all
I just installed Wine -ofcourse reading thru the various replies in the forum. Now How do I execute it. For example everybody say to run notepad type 'wine notepad'. I get an error message 'wine: cannot open /home/ss/.wine : No such file or directory' same thing is true even with wine notepad.exe.
I could not find wine directory in my user account with ls -a.
However when I run add/remove in Mandrake , I can see wine installed.
How do I get this to work?
Thank you for your help.
SS

well
you can either type wine [options] program name

or

use a file browser to find the appropriate file and right click on it and choose "Open with" and point it at wine

type
"man wine" for some help
there is a lot of help available at the wine home site

you need to create that hidden .wine directory in the user's home directory who is trying to run wine. plus you need set up your configuration ("config") file. basically .wine is the wine configuration directory for the user wanting to run wine.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=112538

reading the error you mentioned i understand you didnt configure the config file.
wine can find the file cos it cant the folder your in.

edit config file: it s located in your home directory (hidden folder .wine).
make a fake windows folder pointing to drive /c
if you have windoze installed, point to the mount point.

you can install softwares directly in yout fake windows directory.
wine will run ONLY stuff that it can find (in fake/real windows partition)

so far i have lots of mp3 softwares to run and also macromedia dreamweaver! ;-0

Alright, here's one for you.

Say you have WineX installed. that proggy already makes a mock drive c: Can I edit my wine config file to point to the Winex Drive c: or does it have to be in my .wine directory?

Thanks all
Hi Megasaz
Well, I don't have a .wine directory in my home folder. So can I create one?
How do I config wine.
Here is the output of 'whereis wine'from my machine. Can you please suggest me what to do next.
[ss@sauryalap ss]$ whereis wine
wine: /usr/bin/wine /usr/lib/wine /usr/include/wine /usr/share/man/man1/wine.1.bz2
I already have win 2000 on my machine.
What is the concept of creating fake directory. How do I ceate? Then after creating do I need to install windows program in that directory?
Thanks

wine folder is hidden.
toggle view hidden files in konq.

Hi all
Apparently there is no .wine directory generated in the users home directory when I installed wine. I installed wine in usr/local. How do I create one and config it.
Thanks for the help.
SS

check for sample config files on winehq.com
place one in folder called .wine in your /home

did u compile or install wine?
u should reinstall it, seems its srewed up!

Hi hulkt
No I have installed wine. Ok I will put the sample config file and see how does it work. Are you also running mandrake Lin 9.2 nd can you run wine successfully?
SS

Hi all
I could install Wine from the mandrake CD, though I tried to run wine notepad but get the error message like this
[ss@sauryalap ss]$ wine notepad.exe
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support f or it ?
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support f or it ?
fixme:reg:_nt_dump_lf unknown Win XP node id 0x686c: do we need to add support f or it ?

I press Y
Notepad eventually runs though it is not able to save the file on Windows ( I assume because I am not root) it also doesn't save in Linux.
I am using Win XP, is it becasue of this?
Thanks