Wine

linux595 · July 7, 2010, 10:21pm

Ok so Im new to Opensuse, in Ubuntu or Fedora I would install wine from their software managers then simply see it with my applications so I could use it. however I installed it on Suse but dont see it anywhere, in software manager it says its installed- so what am i missing.

Thanks Rich

OpenSUSE 11.2

caf4926 · July 7, 2010, 10:26pm

Run this in a terminal

winecfg

Then to install a program just do
wine ./Setup.exe
(Setup.exe = or whatever the application setup is)

linux595 · July 7, 2010, 10:36pm

Thanks and my program worked great- but is there a way to put a wine shortcut on my desktop or some means of accessing my programs installed quickly.

Thanks
Rich

gogalthorp · July 7, 2010, 10:42pm

Sure just right click and add shortcut. In the command line put wine programname. Be sure the start directory is correct.

caf4926 · July 7, 2010, 10:43pm

That’s not the way it works
Wine is an emulator - that applications should build in the applications menu. I’ll guess you are using Gnome, I use kde, so if I explain the menu it’ll not make any sense.
Sometimes the menu doesn’t build properly and you have to edit it.
I will reply 2moro, I have to crash now. I’ll check a Gnome menu for you

caf4926 · July 8, 2010, 6:20am

Here is the menu in Gnome - From Start/Computer > More Applications
http://thumbnails12.imagebam.com/8765/b4094a87643607.jpg](http://www.imagebam.com/image/b4094a87643607)

user · July 8, 2010, 7:10am

linux595 wrote:

>
> Thanks and my program worked great- but is there a way to put a wine
> shortcut on my desktop or some means of accessing my programs installed
> quickly.

With both 11.1 and 11.2 - I’m guessing you have OS 11.2 - you can open the
launch menu (with default KDE, that’s the green blob on the left of the
toolbar) and navigate to the program you want then right click on the one
you want on the desktop. One of the menu items is to copy the app launcher
to the desktop. Caveat - that’s using the “classic” launch menu.

–
Will Honea

DenverD · July 8, 2010, 8:20am

caf4926 wrote:

> Wine is an emulator

WINE = Wine Is Not an Emulator

but, the real reason i post: this question comes up SO often, maybe
the WINE package in the openSUSE repo should be packaged to auto-run
WINECFG as part of the install process (apparently the distros with
training wheels do that) so those who need something to click on
(without reading TFM) have it… ??

@Malcolm, you listening?

caf4926 · July 8, 2010, 10:00am

From the horses mouth

wine - An MS Windows emulator

An MS Windows emulator, consisting of both runtime and also source compatibility functions. You can run your MS executables with it, and you can write your Windows programs under Linux and link against the WINE libraries.

DenverD · July 8, 2010, 12:37pm

caf4926 wrote:
> From the horses mouth
>> wine - An MS Windows emulator

cite your horse please, mine are:

“Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
4 (including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix.”
<cite: distribution README 6384 bytes 2010-07-02 17:38:45 at
hhtp://source.winehq.org/source/>

“The name Wine derives from the recursive acronym Wine Is Not an
Emulator.”
<cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)#Name>

“Is Wine an emulator? … There is a lot of confusion about this,
particularly caused by people getting Wine’s name wrong and calling it
WINdows Emulator. … Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in
much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP
emulator … There are a few things that make Wine more than just an
emulator … “Wine is not just an emulator” is more accurate. Thinking
of Wine as just an emulator is really forgetting about the other
things it is. …”
cite: FAQ at
<http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-c9e6502ad636315e905d07f7e44594757a6738e3>

your turn

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caf4926 · July 8, 2010, 1:56pm

Quite honestly, I don’t give a rats a/ss about the ins and outs of various descriptive terminologies. Mine was from YaST.
So technically, going by the wine web site, you are correct. Wine is not an emulator… Happy now.
I must be wrong.
But I still say it emulates the windows files system tree in .wine

DenverD · July 8, 2010, 2:14pm

caf4926 wrote:
> Quite honestly, I don’t give a rats a/ss about the ins

wasn’t my intention to anger you…sorry.

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caf4926 · July 8, 2010, 2:21pm

Not annoyed DD
Peace eh?
All is happiness in the world