installing wine

Ive reformatted and reinstalled Mandrake 10 about 9 times now, I'm not JOKING, its really been about 9 times... now the whole problem is, getting Wine to install.. on their site there is 2 types of Wine downloads, one is RPM download which is binary, and the other is source download which you must compile yourself. There are 2 types of RPM files to download which are as follows:

wine-20040615-mdk1.i586.rpm
wine-20040615-mdkdebug1.i586.rpm

well i went ahead with the first RPM file, which installs by itself when I click on it, but then i try opening Warcraft 3 Installation file from the cdrom, and it doesn't open, so I download and install the other file, and then i can get the war3 installation to OPEN!.. but then it says that it detects Windows 95 as my operating system and does not allow me to install Warcraft 3, that's because warcraft 3 doesn't run on windows 95. I go and I look for the config file, to see if i can change anything, but no luck there, I couldn't even find the config file, and others had this same problem..

Am I installing it wrong? Can someone who successfully installed Wine please guide me step by step? I've been trying 2 days straight now without any success, any kind of help would be greatly appreciated!

-Thank you, David

Hi,

I'm know somehow cxoffice (commercial packaged wine). There should be some sort of .wine directory in your home (or you need to create it. The file to configure all the stuff should be 'config'. In there you would find lines like:

[Version]
; Windows version to imitate (win95,win98,winme,nt351,nt40,win2k,winxp,win2k3,win20,win30,win31)
"Windows" = "win98"
; DOS version to imitate
;;"DOS" = "6.22"

the wine installation doc for sure will tell you all about!

rg. Andreas

Upgrade to the latest release. We now report Windows 98 by default.