I've downloaded Wine from winehq the file is totally OK because my friend borrowed the CD and it works for him, but he doenst have the time to help me install so I need help.

I've tryed installing it while being root user but when i've unpacked it and types ./tools/wineinstall it says "ure running the wine installation as root this is not advisible", so I log in as a user and installs it and everything seems fine, BUT I dunno if it works or not so I need some commands for Wine and howto install it. Please give me a DETAILED installation manual. Not just unpack and install.

Grateful for an answer

Open a terminal window
Type 'wine notepad'

What happens?

Steve

bash-2.05b# wine notepad
Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
Could not stat /c (No such file or directory), ignoring drive C:
Invalid path L"c:\\windows" for L"windows" directory: does not exist
Perhaps you have not properly edited or created your Wine configuration file.
This is (supposed to be) '/root/.wine/config'


just so u know, I havent imported a registry because when i type "registry" is says the same thing as above....
Can u tell me howto configure it because I think thats where the prob is

run /tools/wineinstall as normal user. When it asks to "SU to root" do it and it will install. The binaries can be run as a normal user from now on. I'd recommend letting it create a new *fake* c drive somewhere in your home directory. "wine" is the command. for ex.

I download WinMX.exe from www.winmx.com to /home/GodSendDeath/c/WinMX.exe

i type the following:

cd c

wine WinMX.exe
then after install, i run the program like this

pwd
/home/GodSendDeath/

wine c/Program\ Files/WinMX/WinMX.exe

I hope this helps with some basic use


-GSD

how do I install from a CD then? lets say I want to install Half-Life and then CS.

You didnt really answer my question because when i type "wine Winamp.exe" it gives me a error message (same as above).
Im really sure that it is because I havent configured my config file or have imported a registry

Grateful for an answer

Well, wine should create a $HOME/.wine/ directory with it's config inside. The configuration file is fully commented so i guess that by simply looking at it you should be able to configure it and run your desired programs.

Yeah ure right I have configured it, the only thing I did was to change the mount point of my cdrom.
But now im totally, absolutely sure what the problem is. The problem is in the thingy
Nah but seriously heres what I've done so far:

First I typed cd /root
then I typed tar -xvf Wine-20030115.tar.gz
After that I entered the Wine-20030115 directory and then opened a new terminal and typed ./tools/wineinstall
I ran the installation as my user roAder.
The installation went fine but, when it was done the installation should import a registry but it came up some sort of error message that sayed that it couldnt find a library in bin or something like that.
So the reason that i cant get wine working is because of the regedit problem!

this is just a part that i copyed from my terminal window:

Created /home/roader/.wine/config using default Wine configuration.
You probably want to review the file, though.

Compiling regedit...
make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Preparing to install default Wine registry entries...
Installing default Wine registry entries...

Could not stat /mnt/fd0 (No such file or directory), ignoring drive A:
Could not stat /cdrom (No such file or directory), ignoring drive D:
/home/roader/wine-20030115/miscemu/wine: could not load 'F:\wine-20030115\programs\regedit\regedit.exe.so': /home/roader/wine-20030115/programs/regedit/regedit.exe.so: undefined symbol: FormatMessageA
Registry install failed.



theres the problem
please help me