Ok, I've installed Redhat 7.2, and chose in the installation process to have WINE installed. However, now I'm stuck - how do I use it?! Does RH 7.2 install it all, or is there still much work for me?

I tried to perform the ./tools/wineinstall command as in the readme.txt file for WINE, but the tools directory doesn't exist, let alone the wineinstall script (which I can't find anywhere on the disk anyway). 'wine' from the command prompt does nothing. I basically haven't a clue what to do next.

Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

i'd guess wine isn't on your path or something
try

whereis wine

should tell you where stuff is located. That ./tools directory is presumably situated in the wine directory, which i THINK is usually under /opt.

once you've found it, it's definitely the 'wine' command you want to use.

Nah, the whole of /opt is empty. Not a thing in there.

All I seem to have worked out since my first post is that I SHOULD be able to click on a .exe in the kde or gnome explorer and it'll run wine automatically to load it. In KDE it does nothing. Gnome tells me there's no associated program.

However, the Service Configurator does tell me the 'wine' service is running.

i'm not familiar with what services wine needs... I've only ever encountered it as a command line program...

well, i'd be very dubious as to wether it actually IS installed... use locate to find any traces of it

locate wine

use locate -u to create the database if it doesn't exist yet.

also, what does:

rpm -qa | grep wine

say?

Sorted. All I had to do was actually try to interpret the error message from just typing 'wine' in a more sensible way.

Typing 'wine' said something about /root/.wine not existing. My solution? To make a .wine directory in /root.

Simple things...