Where on earth has wine installed itself?

gandhi · 03-28-2005, 11:25 AM

Hello, I've just installed the latest wine slackware binary package using installpkg. It works to some extent, to get it working for the programs I need I think I'll need to follow winehq's configuration guide. Now, using KDE I've done a file search for 'wine', I've looked through individual folders I've looked many places, but alas no luck... wine seems to be installed in bits all over the place, now, I recon its meant to be like that because I managed to install a windows app using it's windows installer, so its evidently working.

This is what the guide has to say on where the configuration file is.

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The Wine configuration file is the central file to store configuration settings for Wine. This file (which is called config) can be found in the sub directory .wine/ of your user's home directory (directory /home/user/). In other words, the Wine configuration file is ~/.wine/config. Note that since the Wine configuration file is a part of the Wine registry file system, this file also requires a correct "WINE REGISTRY Version 2" header line to be recognized properly, just like all other Wine registry text files (just in case you decided to write your own registry file from scratch and wonder why Wine keeps rejecting it).

The problem is, this is slackware, I don't appear to have a /home/user directory (I'm root, btw), I sure can't find a .wine one.

Now, this does appear to be a ridiculous question, but where on earth should it be? I haven't done anything fancy, I have googled, jeebus, I'm stumped!

Any help most appreciated, it sounds so simple and yet its nowhere to be found

masand · 03-28-2005, 11:28 AM

form this
~/.wine/config

if u are root

then look in

/root/.wine

.wine indicates that wine is a hidden directory in /root

regards

Linux~Powered · 03-28-2005, 11:30 AM

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The problem is, this is slackware, I don't appear to have a /home/user directory (I'm root, btw), I sure can't find a .wine one.

Why are you running it as root? You should create a user account and should only su to root when needed. If you ran wine, it'll create the .wine directory under root; ls -a will show hidden files. You might have to run winecfg first to make the .wine dir. Not sure, I haven't used it in some time. I know you should get winetools, it'll prevent a lot of headaches for you.

gandhi · 03-28-2005, 11:33 AM

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Originally posted by Linux~Powered
Why are you running it as root? You should create a user account and should only su to root when needed. If you ran wine, it'll create the .wine directory under root; ls -a will show hidden files. You might have to run winecfg first to make the .wine dir. Not sure, I haven't used it in some time. I know you should get winetools, it'll prevent a lot of headaches for you.

Thanks to both of you! I had no idea that the . indicated it was hidden.

I actually haven't quite understand the reasoning behind not running as root, so I've just done what I liked to do... which is kinda why I like Linux.

I'll try and grab winetools, thanks for the tip

Linux~Powered · 03-28-2005, 11:39 AM

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I actually haven't quite understand the reasoning behind not running as root,

You can literally lose everything on your hard-drive with one tiny error in the command line. To add a user just run..

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adduser

And it'll walk you through the account process. It would be wise to do so.

gandhi · 03-28-2005, 11:43 AM

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Originally posted by Linux~Powered

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I actually haven't quite understand the reasoning behind not running as root,

You can literally lose everything on your hard-drive with one tiny error in the command line. To add a user just run..

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adduser

And it'll walk you through the account process. It would be wise to do so.

Ahh, I see. The problem is just about everything I need to do requires me to be root, so its a bit of a pain. I'd rather take the risk and try and type carefully. I never use commands that I don't know anything about anyway.

I'm sure once everything is set up I'll add a user, so thanks for the help