I know that there are loads of topics on this subjects, I did do a bit of searching but still I would prefer dircet help.

OK I downloaded a Wine rmp for Mandy. I installed, the installation went very well except for the fact that some signature was missing.

As far as I know the WIne app is in the usr/bin/ folder. But when I click on the wine app, nothing happens. I opened the wineconfig file, but I didn't quite understand what to do there, furthermore it seemed way too short.

My queastion is where the hell are the options to make the fake windows drive? and all that, and how do I actually start wine?

Btw, is Office XP (or 2000) supported using wine?

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My queastion is where the hell are the options to make the fake windows drive? and all that, and how do I actually start wine?

I installed Wine some days ago, then I downloaded and used winsetuptk.rpm to make the fake drive.

I use wine in such a way (mdk 9.1):
$ Wine /mnt/windows/directory/program.exe

Tomorrow I'll download Xwine (graphical user interface for the wine emulator).

At the moment I had no good results in running programs like real Player and w.bloggar (look at my post of today at 10:50)

I use Win 98

Bye.

Most of the Office 2000 suite should work: www.frankscorner.org
The config file should be in your ~/.wine directory. You can use the Winesetuptk to make one, or copy the sample from /usr/doc/wine-<number>/samples directory and adjust it with the help of the wine.conf man page.
You can configure Gnome/kde to run *.exe's on click. For kde, right-click a Windows program and click "Edit File Type". Use winelauncher instead of wine, because this pops up a window for you telling you what's going on.

Thanx for the help people!
so I can make a fake win dive using the config file?

and by ~/wine do you mean my Home directory? If yes then I acnnot see any wine directory in home.

you can go to my sig or scroll up to one of the past posts that mention frankscorner and go to that site and make the fake windows directory (~/.wine and its subdirectorys) with the program on that site called Winetools..
and yes that means your home directory but what you typed is wrong as its supposed to be ~/.wine notice the period in front of wine showing its a hidden folder...the tilde (~)key is just short for /home/USER where USER is equal to your name on your machine...

Thanx I got the point...

I found easy to setup wine and making fake_win_drive using the Configuration and Setup Tool
winesetuptk-0.6.1-b.i586.rpm

I was going to post a new thread, but my problem seemed kind of relevant to this thread, so here goes:

Okay, so I installed Wine using the rpm, which went perfectly. Then I created the wine.conf file in my home directory using winesetuptk, which also went okay. But since I have a windows xp partition, I was recommended to create a fake windows directory. This is a section of the wine.conf file:

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/home/trinitybellwoods/.wine/fake_windows"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "/home/trinitybellwoods/.wine/fake_windows"
"Filesystem" = "win95"

[Drive D]
"Type" = "hd"
"Path" = "/mnt/windows"
"Label" = "/mnt/windows"
"FileSystem" = "win95"

I know my partition is mounted properly, and so on - and I can access and use files in it, but when I open up a terminal, change to the directory that my program is in, and pass it the command: "wine [nameofprogram.exe]" I get an error message:

[trinitybellwoods@localhost trinitybellwoods]$ cd /mnt/windows/Program\ Files/Trillian
[trinitybellwoods@localhost Trillian]$ wine trillian.exe
Warning: no valid DOS drive found, check your configuration file.
Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory /mnt/windows/Program Files/Trillian; starting in windows directory.
Invalid path L"c:\\windows" for L"windows" directory: does not exist.
Perhaps you have not properly edited your Wine configuration file (/home/trinitybellwoods/.wine/config)

I know this is a total newb question, but what's going wrong? I have honestly searched all over the place and read man pages, but I'm just not clear on what I should do! Thanks...

well.....seems like you are working harder than needed.....frankscorner.org(the site for wine application howto's) also has made available an application called 'winetools' and 'winexgaming' for playing games on wine.

Using winetools, u can create a wine config file from the X-window system, rather than keying in your commands frm the console. And, believe me, creating the config file and fake_windows partition does the job better than creating them manually...I myself installed wine and edited the wine-config file using 'winetools' and have successfully installed solitaire, notepad, freecell, winamp 2.91, jetaudio 4.81, and MS Office 2000(unable to save files in word; and excel and powerpoint crash..lol...but dont mind that much as I dont like applications not working properly...so i boot into windows if i want to use MS word)

so, just download winetools from frankscorner.org and i am sure it will help.



good luck

okay, well, I already ran one of those programs that create the fake directory and the config file, and I've confirmed that wine works by running the command "wine notepad.exe" - that was the test specified on the wine website. I've realized that I need to install my programs in the fake windows directory rather than trying to run them from my windows partition. So, everything should be okay now! thanks for the input!