Wine doesnot Start.
 

Hi Everybody,


I'm running Red Hat 9.0, and whenever I tried to run Wine from the start menu or run command wine under terminal.

my system show hour glass for a moment, and nothing happens not even a get any error message.

What exactly happening? Please Help me out.

open a terminal and run wine from there, wine should produce somekind of output explaining the nature of the problem. i guess you havnt configured wine properly.

if my memory doesnt fail me, you will find it a good idea to edit ~/.wine/config

did u setup ur wine? created ur "C" drive?
install winesetuptk

Do yourself a favor and go here: http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ grab winetools and follow the step by step instructions to set up your wine.

Works like a charm.

Well, for "wine" to do anything, you need to give it a Windoz ".exe" file to run. Entering "wine" by itself starts it and, since it has nothing to do, it exit normally.

Note that "wine" is NOT a Windoz emulator, and that "explorer" (the Windoez desktop manager) will, generally, not run in "wine."

If you've installed it under GNOME or KDE (and, probably, other Linux desktop managers -- I've only used those two), then double-clicking on a Windoz exe file should launch it in "wine." If not, right-click on the exe, select "open with wine" and set it to the default action for "exe" files.

Try "wine --help" for the syntax, and note that the "PROGRAM" argument is not optional.