I recall installing it during the clean reformation. Also whent to YAST, and it had a blue checkmark beside it. But I cannot find the programme anywhere! I don't even have a ~/.wine! Please help.

If you type wine in a terminal what happens?

Okay, now I get the ~/.wine.

But I still find Wine in my K menu. I am not used to using Konsole to launch programmes. Where is Wine in K menu? Or how do I make it appear?

Wine cannot appear in your kmenu, as you do not use wine on its own. Using Wine on its own would be pretty silly, so you have to use wine from the command line to install a Windows program, and then launch that Windows program from the kmenu afterwards.

I'd recommend using winesetuptk or winetools to properly set up your ~/.wine directory with all of the right settings, and then installing programs.

Which programs do you want to install?

A Wine section will appear in your Kmenu AFTER you install your first Windows program or AFTER you install Sidenet. You must be working in your standard user, not SU nor even ROOT.

I would go to Wine HQ and download the latest versions available for SUSE (the versions available from YaST2 are not up-to-date):

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=79444

Download the Wine and the Development files for your SUSE version. You may also wish to consider some additional WineTools:

http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

And another tool to add to the beefiness of Wine, Sidenet:

wine-config-sidenet-1.8.4.tgz from http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html

Install Wine, then Developement, then WineTools, then go to your standard user Konsole (not as SU) and type "wine" for the ./wine folder to appear in your ./home folder.

Then put the Sidenet file in your ./home folder and extract and run as directed. It will back up your main Wine folder and put a fake Windows "C:\" drive in your ./home folder, complete with C:\Windows, C:\Program Files, etc. Then everything will work through Sidenet. This should also create a Wine catagory in your Kmenu.

Paste a Windows .exe installer program in your ./home folder (try Nullsoft's Scriptable Installer for Windows, NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/. I installed this and the Zip2EXE works great in 9.3), go to Kmenu -> Wine -> Task Manager, click on File -> New Task (Run...), Browse for the Windows .exe installer you just placed in the ./home folder and run it . Let it install to C:\Program Files\x, it is not installing to your Windows partition if your are dual-booting, it is installing to your fake C:\ drive. If Wine/Sidenet can install the Windows program (Wine is not an "end-all" and can not install ALL Windows programs) then "Viola!", it should put shortcuts on your desktop, and Kmenu under Wine, and even uninstallers if that was part of the installation process.