[TriLUG] wine

Roy Vestal rvestal at trilug.org
Fri Sep 30 09:28:12 EDT 2005


Josh, If you haven't already, simply run "wine" at the command prompt 
and it will create the necessary files. Wine in Fedora uses a "generic" 
config file, so unless you put one in ~/.wine you will not see one. If 
you do create one, it will over ride the global "generic" one.

Roy

Joshua Guthrie wrote:

> No windows installed.  I do not have a conf file in my ~/.wine 
> directory.  When I ran Mandrake, I did, but not in fedora.  I've 
> installed from RPM, source, and CVS.  I've not seen the conf file so 
> far.  I've read somewhere that the conf file is being placed in a fake 
> registry or something now...  is this true?
>
> I've even tried a chmod 777 on it for grins.
>
>
> I do have my ~/.wine/drive_c/ directory with the appropriate 
> contents.  I can even open and run notepad.exe.
>
>
> thanks!!
> -josh
>
>
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> first off do you have windows installed underneath linux?? If so I would
> install the program in windows and then attempt to just run under wine!,
> but if no windows then you have to create the fake windows dir to make
> the programs think it is actually being installed on a windows file
> system.,,, hope this helps if you need more let me know and i will send
> you an example conf file for wine to help with the fake windows dir
> structure.
>
> LINUX==LIVE OR DIE!!!!!!!
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Joshua Guthrie <josh at westmouthbay.com>
> Date: Thursday, September 22, 2005 5:20 pm
> Subject: [TriLUG] wine
>
>
>>> I am trying to run an application via wine in Fedora Core 4.  On 
>>> install, while selecting the folder for the install, I get an error 
>>> that the folder name is not valid.
>>>
>>> Has anyone ran into something similar here before?
>>>
>>>
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>>> Joshua L. Guthrie
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