How to correctly run wine

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#1

another openSUSE noob question,

I am running openSuse 11 and i found wine in the ‘Software Management’ section. I installed it, but i do not know how to work it. I found some command lines that were supposed to access the game/app in windows, but i am certain i did it incorrectly.

If someone could please help me out with guided instructions it would be greatly appreciated.

I mainly plan on using wine for various online poker clients, Counter Strike, World of warcraft, and some video software.

thanks

#2

Hi
To run an application you need to provide the full path to where it’s
installed in your user wine directory (~/.wine) for example;


wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe

If you have installed programs via a setup program eg;


wine setup.exe

It should be installed in the ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ directory
(the ~/ is shorthand for /home/username directory) you would then run
it via;


wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/some_program/some_program.exe

There is also a utility called winecfg for configuration.

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#3

well alot of the things you said were right over my head haha,

but the notepad line of code brought up a notebook app, so i guess i have wine installed correctly or else that wouldnt work

for instance, when i look under my filesystem i find all my windows files including:

/windows/C/Program Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe
/windows/C/Program Files/Full Tilt Poker/FullTiltPoker.exe

now what is the command line that i must construct to open these thru wine? I have been messing with it throughout the day and i just get message after message about how the files cannot be found

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

#4

Hi
In that case you need to enclose in “path/name.exe” eg;


wine "/windows/C/WINDOWS/notepad.exe"

wine "/windows/C/Program Files/World of Warcraft/wow.exe"

wine "/windows/C/Program Files/Full Tilt Poker/FullTiltPoker.exe"

Now if they are setup programs they will install under your home
directory ~/.wine so you would need to look down in this directory for
the application.

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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
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