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diving_penguin
04-29-2003, 02:06 PM
Hey, I'm a major linux newbie. Love my new 'nix, but I'm still a bit fresh to the scene(understatement)

But, now that I've downloaded a version of wine, I'm not sure what to do. I'm not even positive that I got the correct one, and I was hoping you guys could, in your unending wisdom, help me out a bit. (hey, a little sucking up never hurt, right? ;) )

I'm running redhat 8.0, and I got wine-cvs-unstripped-032403-1.i386.rpm.
Now from the terminal I run(after installing the rpm)
winelauncher *****.exe
The output from the terminal is No configuration file detected. And it opens up the wine window, which reads
You have started Wine, but we cannot find a Wine configuration file.
This is normal if you have never run Wine before. If this is the case, select the 'Configure Wine' option, below, to create a configuration file.
I select the 'Configure Wine' option, and I get
Error: Unable to find winesetup in your PATH or in /opt/wine/bin:
I am not able to configure Wine.
If winesetup is being distributed in a separate package that is not installed yet on your system, then please install this package. winesetup can also be downloaded from www.codeweavers.com
If you choose to not use winesetup for configuration, then you can find information on how to prepare a Wine config file manually in the Wine README / README.gz file, or in the Wine User Guide.

Where would this winesetup file be located and/or where can I get it? Thank you very much for your time. :) (And feel free to call me a complete idiot for asking a question that is probably very obvious. I always seem to miss the obvious, but can figure out the complicated. )

lugoteehalt
04-30-2003, 02:07 PM
Greetings,

Don't have much idea but you might try simply to find the specified readme files.

perhaps install 'locate' or 'slocate' - same thing; may be installed allready. Then, as root, do: locate -c -u to make a database index for it. Then do:

$ locate readme | grep wine

or something like that, to find wine readme files.

When I tried wine it wrote its own files when given:

$ wine <path, filename of windows executable like sol.exe>

Hope some help