Wine/Winex
 

I am just afetr a bit of clarification on the operation of wine and winex. I am a little confused as to how to run a program. Do I need to run the windows setup file for the program once I have wine installed or can I use an already installed copy of the program on a windows partition?

You can do either one, though I personally have had better luck installing Windows programs on a fake-windows partition (entirely in Linux), using Wine to run the installer.

Does this mean you would type something like:

wine setup.exe

And how do I do it on existing windows partitions? My linux drive isn't big enough at the moment to put some of the games on.

Ps. Thanks for the prompt reply.

you just run the program from wherever it is, e.g "wine /mnt/windows/program\ files\blah\blah.exe" you may need to reinstall some games though, reenter cd keys etc..

btw. do't think that wine is a bombproof solution to everything, it can be very tricky to get going with many applications and generally sucks most of the time.

I haven't been able to try it with my latest install but I couldn't get solitaire to work and I thought that would have been an easy one. And I don't expect it to be perfect but it will make the step away from windows that much easier.

hi, i have a problem using winesetup:

anybody can help me?