I'm gettin a lil frustrated right now. My problem is this:
--I can't find my fricken "wine.conf" file

Basically, I need a shiteload of help setting up WINE...I've never had to set it up before. I'm running College Linux 2.3, and I know that CL is built off of Slackware. At winehq.com, they don't have a strictly CL wine build, so I downloaded the 3rd-most-recent Slackware version. I extract the .tgz and I'm trying to follow the installation instructions on WineHQ, but what they're saying should be there, and what is actually there are two different things. The Instl.Guide says I should do the following:

Installation
From Source
Extract the downloaded file:

tar zxvf Wine-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz

This will create a new directory, enter this directory, then type:

./configure && make depend && make && su -c "make install"

When I extract it I get 2 new directories: "install" and "usr"
In the install folder there is: "slack-desc" and "doinst.sh"
When I run doinst.sh it creates a bunch of new files in the install dir, all of them "*.dll.so"

I'm so lost....

as far as I know, there is no such file as wine.conf - at least in my wine install (which is new) there are, for example, these files: /root/.wine/config and /home/myusername/.wine/config

try those

Thanks. yeah, I found my WINE config file at /root/.wine/config
But, I need a bit of help configuring it :S

ok....on what things particulary would you need help on? the Wine config file's format is quite clear I think...there are sections for each thing you can configure, like [Drive C], [wine], [version] - these configure, as they say, the harddrive C (where? what filesystem? etc.), wine's settings and the version that wine imitates.

lines starting with either ; or # mark are comments and do not affect the behaviour of Wine in any way - they are simply "jumped over".

options are set in a format like

"settingname" = "settingvalue"

where settingname is the setting you want to change, and settingvalue is the value or argument you want to pass to that option. like when you want Wine to imitate WindowsXP, you edit the following line in section [version]:

"Windows" = "winxp"

that tells that the version wine imitates is set to winxp (other possibilities are listed in the comment line above that line). and the same goes to DOS version to imitate:

"DOS" = "6.22"

in section [DllOverrides] are lines like this:

"shell32" = "builtin, native"

this differs a bit from the other options. it tells that whenever a dll called shell32 is needed, wine first tries to use it's own builtin dll (builtin) and only if that doesn't work or isn't found or something, the native one is used from your Windows install (native). if you change "builtin, native" to "native, builtin" then the native one is tried first, and in case of error the builtin is used.

; Enable DirectX mouse grab
"DXGrab" = "Y"

this is one type of options you see too..the first line starts with ; so it's a comment telling you that the option under it tells wine whether to use DirectX mouse grab or not. if you want to use it, keep Y between the " and " marks....if you don't want, change the Y to N or comment out that line (put ; in front of it)....simple? I think so.

most of the options should work even you don't touch them. I guess the ones you might need to change are the drive definitions (where your partitions and devices are and what they are called) and the version wine should imitate. the rest just might work...if they don't (you get errors), try to change them as you wish

OK, I too have a problem with Wine:
I installed it typing rpm -i wine-20040505-mdk1.i586.rpm in root and then rpm -i winesetuptk-0-73.i586.rpm also in root. Then in normal user mode, I ran winesetuptk and asked for a fake windows so as not to screw up my existing XP partition.

When I run wine, it gives me the normal
"Wine 20040615
Usage: wine PROGRAM..." screen. But when I try a program (e.g wine /mnt/win_c/Program\ Files/Winamp/winamp.exe) it just crashes the console (i.e, I can't get it back with Ctrl+C and running ps under another console juste crashes that console). When I shut down, it freezes after 'Shutting down dm' (display manager or something) but it doesn't do it when I don't run wine... Any ideas?

By the way, I'm using a Mandrake 10.0

Thanks a lot.

:| whoa....that's pretty wierd....unfortunately, I can't help you there *sorry*.

I've got another question though, how do I get a program to run in wine :S is that all taken care of when I edit and declare stuff in the config file? because if that is the case, it's not working for me. here's the error I get when I just simply type in "wine" in a console:

Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
Could not stat /cdrom (No such file or directory), ignoring drive D:
Invalid path L"c:\\windows" for L"windows" directory: does not exist
Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file.
This is (supposed to be) '/home/nick/.wine/config'
...

If you have a install file thats ends in .tgz, then cd to the folder where its located with terminal, and type:
installpkg filename.tgz

it takes care of the rest on its own

Ok, now I need help. I cannot quite figure out Wine. My Window$ verision is W2K and am trying to setup my config file accordingly. Everytime that I try to run an application it ends up saying that it cannot access C:\windows. I at one point in time was able to get the initial setup screen for Windows Media Player but once I was through it, it stated that the install was messed up and asked if I'd like to re-install it from the website.

I'm running FC2, on a Compaq D510 desktop with 96Mb of memory and also on a HP laptop w/ 256Mb memory. Here's a sample of my config file if it helps.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!! Thank you very much.

Bobo