Wine

[autek]

Well I'm stuck, how do you add an app to run under wine ?? I ran winecfg looking for the app I want to run, but program files is not listed. So therefor I cannot run the app I want to under wine. I tried from the cli, but I just keep getting a not found error message. So how do you add an app to wine. ?

Ed

[bhobjj]

There is a gui setup program winesetuptk.
I use a directory inside my home directory called "c"
with subdirectories program files/ windows/system/
If you start the program from the command line:

$ wine path/to/some/exe

It should either run or give you errors about missing dlls or invalid path.

If you have the install program for what you are trying to run, you could try running the install program with wine.

There have been some releases of wine that are badly broken.

-Bob

[autek]

No winesetuptk on this version of wine. I have 2 HDs on this box and I think that is some of the problem. Wine is calling hdb drive C and hda is called D. So from the cli I tried entering either of the above, but no luck. Evidently I'm using the wrong syntax, but it is what is suggested in the man pages. I see on winehq.org that the Debian version is badly outdated, this doesn't help either. So I'm still kind if lost.

Ed

[bhobjj]

No winesetuptk on this version of wine.

Sorry about that, it is a seperate Debian package:
# apt-get install winesetuptk
Once you have it installed, winesetup command that will prompt you for where to keep your config files and windows programs.

You might also want these:
wine-utils - Windows API Implementation (Utilities)
libwine-print - Windows API Implementation (Printing Module)
libwine-alsa - Windows API Implementation (ALSA Sound Module)


I have 2 HDs on this box and I think that is some of the problem. Wine is calling hdb drive C and hda is called D. So from the cli I tried entering either of the above, but no luck.

When using the command line to load a program, use the Linux path to the program.

I looked at my home computer and my wine programs are setup inside a hidden directory inside my home directory.
/home/bob/.wine/fake_windows

So when I install a windows program it is installs to:
/home/bob/.wine/fake_windows/Program Files
and dll files install to
/home/bob/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/System/

-BoB

[stafio]

There's a new wine related project coming along that provides similar functionality to winesetuptk and WineTools called Wine Doors (http://www.wine-doors.org). The project aims to take the winesetuptk type of tool and add an apt style element to it by having all of the Windows program configuration/installation information stored on a web service rather than being integrated into the tool itself. There haven't been any releases of Wine Doors yet, but it looks like it's worth keeping an eye on.