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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

Can anyone help me?



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Response Number 1
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"


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