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WINE help
Name: Keith Date: November 24, 2003 at 14:28:55 Pacific OS: Mandrake 9.2 CPU/Ram: 1300/256
Comment:
Hi,
I'm pretty new to Linux. I just installed Mandrake 9.2 on my laptop. I downloaded wine20031118-mdk.i586.rpm and successfully installed it through su root! but when I type 'wine program.exe', or just 'wine', it says "wine: cannot open /home/keith/.wine : No such file or directory".
A few weeks ago, I got Wine to work in Red hat 9, but now I can't get it to work in Mandrake 9.2.
Name: 3Dave Date: November 25, 2003 at 05:42:43 Pacific
Reply:
Just a guess..... If you "su" to root instead of "su -" you don't inherit root's path so your home folder remains the same. If root creates a folder in what he thinks is his home folder but is in fact yours, the permissions may not allow you access. As root try: # rm -Rf /home/keith/.wine
And then try running it again as a regular user.
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Response Number 2
Name: Keith Date: November 25, 2003 at 09:14:33 Pacific
Reply:
Hi,
Thanks for your help. I think I tried that, I don't think it worked. I ended up compiling it from the source. (!)
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: November 25, 2003 at 09:19:31 Pacific
Reply:
That's a good idea as you get quite a performance boost with wine compiling it yourself.
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Response Number 4
Name: Keith Date: November 25, 2003 at 09:41:20 Pacific
Reply:
I doubted i could do it but WINEINSTALL did almost all the work.
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