Wine

Hello all . . .

I'm very new on Linux and i need help.

I need some help on how to start WINE

Assuming wine is installed, then for simple applications, its very easy.

Open an xterm/terminal/konsole (what ever you call it). You do know how to open this, I hope ?

Lets say your MS-Windows executeable is called "autostitch.exe" and its located under /home/merianos/panorama, where "merianos" is your user name. Then when you open the xterm/terminal/konsole, it will start with you located in /home/merianos/. So type "cd panorama" to get to "/home/merianos/panorama". Then type:
<span style="font-family:Courier New">wine autostitch.exe</span>
and if the application is a simple application, it should run. More complex applications need to have their install.exe run, (with "wine install.exe") etc .... And many MS-Windows applications won't run under wine.

Thats a VERY simple explanation. Hopefully it helps. Good luck.

if this is the first time he has run wine, he must go into Konsole and type winecfg which will create drive_c, "program files" and the other standard windows folders under the ~/.wine folder.

merianos, www.winehq.org has many useful docs

Many many thanks . . .

he must go into Konsole and type winecfg which will ....[/b]

I have NEVER run winecfg, and I have been using wine ever since I started using linux 10 years ago.

winecfg is not essential to run. It may be useful for some users, but its not essential.

Thanks for the winecfg suggestion, and please, my apologies, I'm not trying to be critical. I'm only trying to insert a degree of accuracy.

oh, lol, no problem oldcpu, ive not been using as long as you but before i could get anything to work with wine i had to run winecfg which created the .wine folder and structure, mapping of drives (eg C: to /home/myhome/.wine/drive_c) and configure the audio.

...before i could get anything to work with wine i had to run winecfg which created the .wine folder and structure, mapping of drives (eg C: to /home/myhome/.wine/drive_c) and configure the audio.[/b]

Having never run winecfg, I'm in NO real place to comment, ... but I think without winecfg, the first time one runs "wine application.exe", the .wine directory is created. If one also runs a program that installs applications on the wine equivalent of the "c drive" (for example such as an "install-some-app.exe") then by running "wine install-some-app.exe", wine will create the "/home/myhome/.wine/drive_c)". No need for winecfg for that. I think (maybe someone can chime in) that winecfg offers additional features over simply typing "wine application.exe/install.exe". Things like specifying if a winNT should be emulated, or something else ...

A good test is to rename ones "/home/myhome/.wine/" to "/home/myhome/.wine-backup/"and then run "wine application.exe" and watch the directory "/home/myhome/.wine/" be re-created (or watch me eat crow because it doesn't work on your pc or mine .... won't be the 1st nor the last time I've had to step back on what I thought was the way things worked .... still, I'm reasonably certain on this ..... I'm also not on a linux pc now and need to confirm my memory when I get home).

oldcpu it is I eating my words ... i just remote-desktop'd to my home computer, mv'd .wine to .winebackup and ran "wine ~/myapp.exe", indeed one of the things it does is create the drive_c structure (etc)

winecfg is the "wine configurator" which allows you to set up things like which version of windows wine should pretend to be, your audio and graphics set up (plus a few other things which i don't recall right now). i think i said you "must" do this as it is the way i have always done it hehe

anyway, i shall just go back to lurking and refrain from knee-jerk postings which don't help hehe

I have NEVER run winecfg, and I have been using wine ever since I started using linux 10 years ago.

winecfg is not essential to run. It may be useful for some users, but its not essential.

Thanks for the winecfg suggestion, and please, my apologies, I'm not trying to be critical. I'm only trying to insert a degree of accuracy.
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Well I have also not used winecfg as my friend who showed me the path to linux used wine without winecfg. But I guess I will have to look into winecfg now so that I can use it better.

winecfg is the "wine configurator" which allows you to set up things like which version of windows wine should pretend to be, your audio and graphics set up (plus a few other things which i don't recall right now). [/b]

I think this is very useful to know, and its been a good dialogue.