Wine help

Cobra243 · 09-05-2006, 08:39 AM

Hi, i have suse 10.1 with KDE. I just installed the latest wine version with no problem but it didn't put a wine icon on kmenu or desktop. So i was wondering if you could please tell how to open and run it. Thanks!

ethics · 09-05-2006, 08:44 AM

wine can be run from the CLI with

Code:

wine "*.exe"

there are text based config files, or some packages of wine have winetools or whatever it's called.

type wine in a console then hit tab a few times to autocomplete and see what other wine ish programs you can run.

Cobra243 · 09-05-2006, 08:51 AM

Here is what i get :

dhcppc1:/home/johnny # wine
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program
wine --help Display this help and exit
wine --version Output version information and exit
dhcppc1:/home/johnny # wine PROGRAM
wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...
fixme

le:ITypeInfo_fnRelease destroy child objects
wine: '/root/.wine' created successfully.
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\PROGRAM.exe": Module not found

What am i missing?

Cobra243 · 09-05-2006, 08:59 AM

I found this into wine directory .wine/drive_c/windows/system32. There are many .exe there but no program.exe only one similar, progman.exe. Should i change the name? Any help please!

ethics · 09-05-2006, 09:12 AM

er.... what?

maybe if it's better if we start with what exactly you are tryin to do?

In my post i was saying you have to run

Code:

wine <NAME OF PROGRAM YOU WANT TO RUN>.exe

Cobra243 · 09-05-2006, 09:24 AM

Here it is:

johnny@dhcppc1:~> wine bearshare.exe
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\bearshare.exe": Module not found

Should i go into the directory first with cd command?

Cobra243 · 09-05-2006, 09:30 AM

Hi, i got it, i should place a sortcut of the program into that directory. One last question, isn't there any graphic interface to do that instead of typing commands?

ethics · 09-05-2006, 09:32 AM

you don't have to add a shortcut, you can cd to the directory and execute it, basically it's to do with paths (where the OS expects to find things).

Depending on what window manager/Desktop environment you are using, you could set it so that duble clicking on the .exe mime-type will run it using wine

Cobra243 · 09-05-2006, 09:39 AM

Yea i know when i click an executable file it ask me (KDE) with what program do i want to open it, but the problem is that i don't know what is the exact file that opens that in order to choose. Is the wine.exe?