Small WINE issue....

Colin Behr · 02-21-2006, 08:13 AM

I've been trying out WINE. It seems to install the programs, however I have no idea how to launch them. I have installed about 5 .exe and so far only one of them has actually appeared in my program menu.

dive · 02-21-2006, 09:39 AM

Depends what DE you are using - I guess the menu is not automatically updating with wine installs. Maybe you have to edit manually.

The normal command is 'wine /path/to/program/program.exe'

The path will be something like ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/.../Program.exe

Colin Behr · 02-21-2006, 10:12 AM

Ahh right, I see. Thanks.

The only thing is, how can I locate where I installed them again? Because WINE emulates the windows disk structure so I can't fine the location when browsing my linux HD.

dive · 02-21-2006, 11:12 AM

You can - all wine progs are stored in ~/.wine/drive_c/...

Usually in Program\ Files

muddywaters · 02-21-2006, 11:12 AM

What DE (desktop enviroment) are you using? The location should be as dive pointed out. If you are using KDE you can view these files in konqueror. Go to the view tab and enable 'show hidden files'. Look in .wine.
You can always view these files by using 'cd' in a terminal and following the path starting with 'cd .wine'

Sorry dive, I thought you had gone

dive · 02-21-2006, 11:40 AM

np - I came back

Colin Behr · 02-21-2006, 11:55 AM

Thanks guys. I located the files.

Just some programs don't really run....

dive · 02-21-2006, 12:14 PM

wine takes some configuring for certain progs to work correctly - eg it took me a good hour or so to suss out google earth

You may need to start these programs from a terminal, note down any dll errors you see, then use winecfg to set these as builtin or native and see what works.

Also in winecfg the os makes some difference - some progs will run in win98 mode and no others.

Check out winehq application database for ways that some people have got certain progs to run.

http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php