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open a terminal and run wine from there, wine should produce somekind of output explaining the nature of the problem. i guess you havnt configured wine properly.
if my memory doesnt fail me, you will find it a good idea to edit ~/.wine/config
Well, for "wine" to do anything, you need to give it a Windoz ".exe" file to run. Entering "wine" by itself starts it and, since it has nothing to do, it exit normally.
Note that "wine" is NOT a Windoz emulator, and that "explorer" (the Windoez desktop manager) will, generally, not run in "wine."
If you've installed it under GNOME or KDE (and, probably, other Linux desktop managers -- I've only used those two), then double-clicking on a Windoz exe file should launch it in "wine." If not, right-click on the exe, select "open with wine" and set it to the default action for "exe" files.
Try "wine --help" for the syntax, and note that the "PROGRAM" argument is not optional.
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