wine

dummoi · 05-19-2004, 03:07 PM

When I try to run a program using wine, I receive the following error:

Invalid path L"C:\\windows" for L"windows" directory: does not exist.
Perhaps you have not properly edited your Wine configuration file (/home/dieter/.wine/config)
dieter@dieter:~$

I can't find anything strange in my config file. Here is a part of it.

WINE REGISTRY Version 2
;; All keys relative to \\Machine\\Software\\Wine\\Wine\\Config

;; If you think it is necessary to show others your complete config for a
;; bug report, filter out empty lines and comments with
;; grep -v "^;" ~/.wine/config | grep '.'

[Drive C]
"Path" = "/home/dieter/c"
"Type" = "hd"

[Drive E]
"Path" = "/mnt/cdrom"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Device" = "/dev/hdc"

[Drive F]
"Path" = "/mnt/dvdr0"
"Type" = "cdrom"
"Device" = "/dev/hdd"

[wine]
"Windows" = "C:\\windows"
"System" = "C:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "C:\\windows\\temp"
"Path" = "C:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system"
"Profile" = "C:\\windows\\Profiles\\Administrator"
"GraphicsDriver" = "x11drv"
;"ShowDirSymlinks" = "1"
;"ShowDotFiles" = "1"
"ShellLinker" = "wineshelllink"
....

thx, dummoi

jamckon · 06-03-2004, 11:17 PM

I recently upgraded to the latest version of Wine as of June third, and was unfortunate enough to have a similar problem. If you use the configuration utility that comes with the Wine Distribution, and decide to have it create a "fake_windows_directory" (or whatever you decide to call it) then it will be created by default in ~/.wine/fake_windows_directory/Windows/.

The difference between what your configuration file points to and what I assume to be your actual directory is only a capitalization error.
I'm not positive since I do not know the contents of your /home/dieter/c, but you might try making..

[wine]
"Windows" = "C:\\windows"
"System" = "C:\\windows\\system"
"Temp" = "C:\\windows\\temp"
"Path" = "C:\\windows;c:\\windows\\system"

[wine]
"Windows" = "C:\\Windows"
"System" = "C:\\Windows\\System"
"Temp" = "C:\\Windows\\temp"
"Path" = "C:\\Windows;c:\\Windows\\System"

I hope this helps.

perry · 06-13-2004, 09:16 AM

Code:

[perry@localhost winetmp-perry]$ wine
Invalid path L"H:\\" for L"temp" directory: does not exist.
Perhaps you have not properly edited your Wine configuration file (/home/perry/.wine/config)

i did what you said, changing the temp from L"H:\\" to L"C:\\winnt\\temp" and it seemed to nail the problem

i ran wine again and it gave me the following:

Code:

[perry@localhost winetmp-perry]$ ls /mnt/win_c/winnt/temp
engsetup.log*  old56.tmp*  old5.tmp*  old9.tmp*   oldc9.tmp*  olde.tmp*
_istmp2.dir/   old57.tmp*  old6.tmp*  oldc8.tmp*  oldc.tmp*
[perry@localhost winetmp-perry]$ wine
Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "A:" = L"floppy"
Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "C:" = L"hd"
Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "D:" = L"hd"
Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "E:" = L"hd"
Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "F:" = L"cdrom"
Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "G:" = L"network"
Converted drive type to new entry HKLM\Software\Wine\Drives "H:" = L"hd"
Wine 20040505
 
Usage: wine [options] [--] program_name [arguments]
The -- has to be used if you specify arguments (of the program)
 
Options:
   --debugmsg name  No longer supported, use the WINEDEBUG variable instead
   --help,-h        Show this help message
   --version,-v     Display the Wine version
[perry@localhost winetmp-perry]$

i'm assuming this means it works, thanks much

- perry