need help on running windows-based programs

nrjeromene · 01-10-2004, 03:47 PM

hi - i've recently installed SuSE 8.2 onto my computer and partitioned my old windows ME. i'm having a difficult time figuring out how to use WINE so i can try and run some of my windows-based .exe files.

can someone please explain to me exactly what i need to do and how to do it? i'm getting frustrated

XavierP · 01-10-2004, 04:08 PM

What is going wrong? Once wine is installed and you've tested it (type in

Code:

wine notepad.exe

- do you see a Notepad?

You should type in

Code:

 wine /path/to/program.exe

- if the path has spaces (as in /path to/program.exe) put the path in quotes.

Oh yeah - welcome to LQ

nrjeromene · 01-10-2004, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by XavierP
What is going wrong? Once wine is installed and you've tested it (type in

Code:

wine notepad.exe

- do you see a Notepad?

man, i must be mentally challenged - i can't even get notepad to open. i click on wine and it says: "wine needs a windows executable as a parameter!" below i type: wine notepad.exe

nothing happens

correction - got the notepad to work! yay, me!

XavierP · 01-10-2004, 04:30 PM

I find that wine is best run from a terminal.

So, if your program is on your home drive, you would type

Code:

wine /home/name/directory/program.exe

if it's on your fat32 drive (if you have one), you would type

Code:

wine /mnt/fatdrive/"My Documents"/programs/name/program.exe

for example.

If it's something you use regularly, you can set up a shortcut on your desktop or in your menu.

nrjeromene · 01-13-2004, 06:02 PM

okay - i'm slowly learning this OS as i go.

circumstances have changed. windows was trashed and now i only have linux.

so, linux was re-installed and i have downloaded the .exe file i want to install. however, when i attempt to use wine to install, i get this error:

Code:

err:virtual:map_image Standard load address for a Win32 program
(0x00400000) not available - security-patched kernel ? wine: could not load
'Y:\mtgodl2.exe' as Win32 binary

what am i doing wrong?

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please, someone, i do need help with the above error message.

nrjeromene · 01-14-2004, 09:20 PM

i can't get past that error! what do i need to do to fix it?? argh.

megaspaz · 01-14-2004, 09:23 PM

what kind of installer is it? if it's install shield you'll have to install dcom98.exe

look here. there's links to the dcom95.exe and dcom98.exe.

http://frankscorner.org

also has a pretty good list of what works in wine and how to get it to work.