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I am running Fedora Core 3. Just downloaded the most recent Wine version
from winehq (wine-20050419-1fc3winehq.athlon.rpm). Also printed the
entire 58 page instruction manual. I installed the package using the
command line rpm command. Seemed to install OK. In section 3.2.1 of the
instruction manual, instructions are given to use tools/wineinstall for
the next step in the process of setting up wine. There IS no
wineinstall! I did an updatedb command and searched: no such file.
Ok first of all, by tools, do you mean wine tools?
Second of all, you'll need wine tools as a GUI menu for Wine and you can use winelibs/lib to run win apps in Linux in a separate X window.
As far as, the wine tools if that is what you mean are concerned, you will need to download them. There should be a link on the winehq.com download page where to get them from.
I did this in a terminal window as su. The downloaded file
wine-20050419-1fc3winehq.athlon.rpm
was in a new directory all by itself. I issued the following command:
rpm -ivh wine-20050419-1fc3winehq.athlon.rpm
Many files were created all over the place, but none in the directory in which I had the above mentioned, downloaded rpm file. No file /tools/wineinstall was created as descibed in section 3.2.1 of the manual I printed from winehq.org.
Hmm.. if you su'ed, you used root, correct? I'm sorry for these small, tardy questions but sometimes they do help. What do you mean by "all over the place?"
PS: Why did you print the manual? Fifty-two pages is A LOT.
I don't mind the questions. Actually, I don't remember now whether I did an su from a terminal window while logged in as a user or whether I logged out and then back in as root. Either way, I know I ran the rpm command as root.
By "all over the place" I meant that many files were created by the rpm in many different directories. Here are a couple:
/usr/bin
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/icons
/usr/share/fonts
Ok. So they installed in the correct /usr folders, heh. Did you check to see if there is a folder named tools in /, /usr, and where you did your initial rpm install?
I re-checked just now. No tools directory in any of those three directories.
P.S. I printed off the manual because I like to read and underline when necessary. As much as I enjoy and use computers, there are some things they do not replace--books, for one thing.
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