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Wine fails running windows programs
Name: VictorSuM Date: December 25, 2003 at 09:38:49 Pacific OS: Mandrake 9.1 CPU/Ram: P3 866 mHz, 128mb
Comment:
This is the first time I use Wine and I don't understand it very well...
When I type: wine /mnt/windows/test/klrun.exe klrun is a windows program. It says:
wine: cannot open /root/.wine : No such file or directory
Name: Jake Date: December 25, 2003 at 10:38:38 Pacific
Reply:
First, you probably don't want to be running Windows programs as root. As your normal user, if "mkdir ~/.wine" doesn't fix things, you'll need to configure WINE with "winesetuptk".
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Response Number 2
Name: KeithG849 Date: December 25, 2003 at 11:00:55 Pacific
Reply:
I had this problem and couldn't fix it, so I had to compile wine. There are instructions in the TAR src file.
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Response Number 3
Name: VictorSuM Date: December 26, 2003 at 02:43:31 Pacific
Reply:
I can't run wine as a normal user either. When I made a dir .wine in my homedir it sais:
Warning: no valid DOS drive found, check your configuration file. Warning: could not find wine config [Drive x] entry for current working directory /home/victor; starting in windows directory. Invalid path L"c:\\windows" for L"windows" directory: does not exist. Perhaps you have not properly edited your Wine configuration file (/home/victor/.wine/config)
But there isn't a config file because i made the directory myself...
And I can't run winesetuptk, cause the command doesn't exist...
I installed it this way: (in root) "rpm -i wine-20030911-mdk9.1.i586.rpm"
Summary: I just installed mandrake 9.1 onto my computer. I know nothing about linux, so I decided to try it. I had heard that Wine could run Windows Programs, so I decided it would install my USB Wireless Adap...