Wine

jtbikerdb · 10-09-2002, 10:54 PM

I have installed wine, but when i click to use it, it says: wine needs a windows executable as a parameter.
Would somebody please help me?

p.s. I have checked other websites with F.A.Qs on them and I cant seem to find an answer to this problem.

Thymox · 10-09-2002, 11:05 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Wine is not a standalone program. You need to tell it what Windows program you want to use. Think of it as an emulator for specific programs rather than emulating Windows as a whole. For example, you could tell it to run calc or notepad by giving it something like:
wine /mnt/win_c/Windows/calc.exe
I believe that you may also need to specify which version of Windows you want it to immitate.

jtbikerdb · 10-09-2002, 11:12 PM

I have SuSe 8.0 personal, and I click on --->system--->emulator--->wine, thats when it gives me the error. I don't see a space to specify what programs I want to load. Would I do that from the konsole? If so, what is the wine tab for under emulator?

Thymox · 10-09-2002, 11:26 PM

Yep, console it is! You can, of course, edit the 'link' and give some parameters, but console it definitely the easiest way.

jtbikerdb · 10-09-2002, 11:28 PM

ok, thanks!