[Lancaster] Wine, Laptop and Wayne.

[Ken Hough]

Hi Ryk,

I use 'wine' to run several Windohs progs.

I assume that you installed 'wine' via your OSes installation manager, so all 
should be ready to go.

Try entering 'winecfg'. It might take a while to run up, but you should be 
presented with a window giving you various options for setting up 'wine'. To 
begin with just accept the default settings then terminate 'winecfg'.

Then to install MS Windows progs, fire up a terminal window and from the 
directory which holds thw MS prog enter 'wine <NAME OF WINDOWS INSTALL 
PROG>'.

Not all MS progs will run under 'wine', but if all is well, the installer 
should run without error with the prog being installed below 
~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files

Notes:

1. The hidden directory for wine (ie .wine)

2. Desktop links created by the installer probably won't work under Linux.

To run the prog for the first time change into the directory given above, then 
look for the subdirectory holding the prog that you have just installed, then 
change into this subdirectory and look for the program .exe file.

Then enter 'wine './NAME_OF_PROG.exe'.

If this works OK, you will want to create a friendly (Linux) desktop link to 
do the job.

Good luck

Ken hough



On Friday 21 August 2009 10:47:47 Rik Boland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How are we all, good I hope!
>
> I have installed Wine and I am trying to run some P software on it and
> have installed the software but having hard time to get it to run.  Any
> idea's?
>
> I have still not done anything to that laptop, with work, needing to
> stay tidy and laziness I have not got around to looking at the ribbon
> but will do and hopeful install Unbuntu on it.
>
> Wayne not got back to you yet re website as not had time to talk to
> others about it, but will do soon, I hope.
>
> Shalom
>
> Rik
>
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