wine help

[Plyati]

Ok, first I want to preface this by saying that I read the NHF on Wine, I searched for Wine related threads, and I've read a lot on the Wine web site. As I am still at a loss, I thought I would just come right out and ask for help. I'm sorry to waste anyone's time...I'm sure this has been answered a thousand times at least.

I'm running ASPLinux 7.2 and during the installation, I specifically chose to have the Wine package installed. As I understand it, there should be a file wine.conf in /etc/wine. Firstly, there is no wine directory in /etc. Secondly, there are what appears to be wine related files in /etc and they are as follows:
wine.reg
wine.systemreg
wine.userreg

When I didn't see the wine directory in /etc, I thought perhaps that it actually was not installed, so I d/l the binary and source RPMs from the Wine site. Now, when I tried to install using the i386 file, the RH package manager complains that there was a binary found but no source. When I try to go at it through the source RPM, I get the same error except the other way around.

I'm still really new to Linux, so I'm pretty much out of my depth here and have no idea what to do next. Can anyone steer me in the right direction? TIA.

[KageMurai]

Well, If you have installed Wine during RedHat setup it really should be available on your system. Wine has its own configuration file for every user. It is located in

~/.wine/config

Perhaps this might help you, as I don't understand your problem.

Did you try just to type 'wine' (no quotationmarks) in the conole?

[Plyati]

I logged in as root just to eliminate permissions and such as part of the problem. When I open up a console and type 'wine' (without quotes of course), this is the response I get::

wineserver: chdir /root/.wine : no such file or directory

Also, I'm not able to find ~/.wine/config

[SonicSnoop]

If you dont have the .wine directory in your home directory have you tried creating it to see if that helps? If im not mistaken when i set up wine i have to make that directory and once i ran wine the first time it created all the basic config files in there.. try that and see what happens..

[windoze killa]

I just typed mkdir ./wine from my home directory all all was sweet. No longer got that error.

It would be nice if it did this automagically the first time you ran it.

[Plyati]

Ok, I'm making progress :) I created the .wine dir and it runs now, but for some reason I can't seem to navigate to any directory on the Winblows partition that has spaces in the name (like Program Files, for instance). Anyone know a way around this?

[SonicSnoop]

I made a sim link to /usr/local/win so in my root dir i have c: as a directory .. when i want to run anything i just type:

wine /c\:/Program\ Files/Trillian/trillian.exe

and it works fine for me.. i believe you could also do:

wine c:\\Program Files\\Trillian\\trillian.exe

maybe try enclosing the entire string in "'s see if that helps you.. but the above work fine for me..