When I put linux on my system, I installed wine because I wanted to use internet explorer just in case any sites were not compatible.

So... I used the Sidenet wine configuration utility to get IE to work. IE did work, but no matter what app I used (in wine), there was no text. Even after DCOM98 was installed, this error still occured.

After using linux for a few days, I noticed that most sites are compatible with FireFox, so I no longer need it (IE sucks anyway). Now I want to start out with a fresh wine instalation since there is no text. I am fairily certain I can just un-install the RPM package, but I just want to make sure that it will work when I re-install it. Any comments?

The easiest way is to try Installing from RPM shouldn't produce problems.

Hold on. Before you remove wine, be sure that none of your other packages depend on it. The various windows multimedia codecs in particular may depend on wine so you could very well break some functionality that you want to keep.

As far as getting MSIE to work, if you're still pondering the idea of making it work, try winetools instead. I downloaded the latest build a few nights ago and have a working installation of MSIE 6.0 and Windows Media Player. Everything seems to work in MSIE except for any effects which require any of the directx filters. I've sinced installed TopStyle, Photoshop (admittedly it's a little unstable under wine, but it works!), TextPad, winrar, and a few other packages I previously needed to reboot to Windows to use. (now if only I could get my ATI AiW 8500DV's TV tuner to work!)

I tried some of the other wine configuration packages and none of them worked so flawlessly. Winetools rocks!

--Kim

There are no dependencies. At this point, I just want a fresh install of Wine, I tried installing and uninstalling wine, but the ~/.wine folder was still there. How do I get the origonal config file and the origonal windows volume?

Removing the software package using the RPM manager does not remove your data files. Remove them by hand by doing:

rm -r ~/.wine

after first making sure there are no data files you care about anywhere under ~/.wine

Greetings,

Thought I would piggy back this thread if it is okay. I wish to install IE using the same method and have downloaded the Sidenet wine configuration utility, but do not know what to do next? I am new to this and would greatly appreciate some help if at all possible.

-TS-

First, extract it to your home directory. Assuming you keep the same folder name, here are the commands:

$ cd wine-config-sidenet
$ ./setup

And just follow the setup.

Okay been trying to do what the instructions say, but I keep getting the message

bash: $: command not found

Does this mean that I do not have wine installed?

Don't type the dollar symbol, that is just an indication of your command prompt instead of showing the whole
[user@hostname working-directory]$
Just type the commands after the $ sign