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Melinda Gates
10-11-2001, 02:16 PM
I've got a RH 7.1 workstation that I set up a day or two ago. Next I downoaded the Wine RPM from winehq.com, burned it to a CD and ran it on my workstation. A dialouge box told me that it was installing, and I can see a directory that it set up in the file system, but I don't have any clue as to how to invoke the emulator.
Now please be gentle with me. I'm obviously not too bright and am probably overlooking something very simple, but if you can help me out here I'd be most appreciative.
Wine in redhat 7.1 is a started by a script. And it runs like a service. Whenever you try to run a Win-32 bynary the service running in the backgroun should handle it transparently.
To start wine just type /etc/rc.d/init.d/wine start (at the root prompt)
If you want wine to be started at boot time type "ntsysv" as root and check the wine box.
DwarfBaby
10-11-2001, 02:38 PM
Just out of curiosity how well does wine work and how easy is it to use? Does it run all windows programs?
some clean programs (without "strange" codes) run very well using wine. Some wonīt.
Itīs a matter of how compliant to windows api is the program or not.
Wine runs better if you have a windows installed somewhere in the computer so it can use the windows dlls.
(in that case you should edit wine.conf to point to your windows partition and dlls directory).
Joeri Sebrechts
10-11-2001, 04:23 PM
Originally posted by DwarfBaby:
<STRONG>Just out of curiosity how well does wine work and how easy is it to use? Does it run all windows programs?</STRONG>
It depends. If you use the windows system dll's it can run a lot (office 97 works on my wine setup). Otherwise you're limited to some games and some small apps.