A Question About Wine

[quietguy47]

I downloaded and installed wine. I dug out a couple old games from when I ran win98. Now how do I get wine to work? Please tell me in newbie-eeze.

[Homer119]

simple you type

wine Filename

if u want to install off a cd do this

cd /mnt/cdrom
wine setup.exe (or whatever the setup file is)

[quietguy47]

Thanks. I'll give that a try.

[quietguy47]

I installed wine exactly as it said in the readme. I put in disc 1 of medal of honor: allied assault, mounted /dev/cdrom as root, typed 'wine Setup.exe(plus variations)' and got the error 'wineserver: chdir /root/.wine : no such file or directory'. What did I do wrong?

[Homer119]

do this

cd /root/.wine

if u get an error u prob setup wine somewhere else then do this

updatedb
locate .wine

where did u put .wine when u find it u can move it to root

[bwkaz]

Originally posted by Homer119
when u find it u can move it to root Actually, this may not be the best way to do it. If you installed wine ("installed" meaning ran the ./tools/wineinstall script) as someone other than root, then there will be a .wine/ directory in that user's home rather than in /root/, and it would be better to use it where it's at rather than moving it to root's home.

Run the /mnt/cdrom/Setup.exe as the user you installed Wine as, or run the ./tools/wineinstall script (from the top-level Wine source directory) as root if you've never run it as anyone before.