I'm new to wine and I'm running wine version 0.9.2 on Fedora Core 1 and I have the following problem: I install any windows application from its installer (setup.exe or similar). Once installed, in order to run it I need to go to the directory where the aplication is installed, for example cd /root/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\MiniReminder And then run the application, for example: wine "MiniReminder.exe" The problem is that when I try to run any application from outside of its directory it doesn't work. Or if I make a shortcut from winecfg to the application exe file the same thing occurs. The applications seems not to detect where ini or cfg are installed. Does anybody have any idea? Does anybody knows any wine tutorial oriented to newbies? Thanks in advance, regards, Mat?as
On Mon, March 6, 2006 5:04 pm, Mat?as Guti?rrez Reto wrote:> I'm new to wine and I'm running wine version 0.9.2 on Fedora Core 1 > and I have the following problem: > > I install any windows application from its installer (setup.exe or > similar). > Once installed, in order to run it I need to go to the directory where the > aplication is installed, for example > > cd /root/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\MiniReminder > > And then run the application, for example: > > wine "MiniReminder.exe" > > The problem is that when I try to run any application from outside of its > directory it doesn't work. Or if I make a shortcut from winecfg to the > application exe file the same thing occurs. The applications seems not > to detect where ini or cfg are installed.You can create a small shell script, and use that to run your application each time, for example: #!/bin/sh cd /root/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/MiniReminder exec wine MiniReminder.exe This way, you can just click on the icon of this shell script, or put a link to it on your desktop, and run your program. I also notice that you appear to be running as the user "root". That is never a good idea. Any single mistake can mess up your entire system, because the root user has the ability to delete any files or change any configuration. It is better to create a normal user on your system, and use that for everyday work. -- Anand
On Monday 06 March 2006 17:04, Mat?as Guti?rrez Reto wrote:> I'm new to wine and I'm running wine version 0.9.2 on Fedora Core 1 > and I have the following problem: > > I install any windows application from its installer (setup.exe or > similar). Once installed, in order to run it I need to go to the directory > where the aplication is installed, for example > > cd /root/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\MiniReminder > > And then run the application, for example: > > wine "MiniReminder.exe" > > The problem is that when I try to run any application from outside of its > directory it doesn't work. Or if I make a shortcut from winecfg to the > application exe file the same thing occurs. The applications seems not > to detect where ini or cfg are installed. > > Does anybody have any idea? > > Does anybody knows any wine tutorial oriented to newbies? > > Thanks in advance, regards, > Mat?asHi Matias. In addition to what Anand said about running as root. I wonder if you made the same error as I made post install of Wine. I was still at root, and ran wincfg, which put the .wine directory in /root. Thinking back, I think I just deleted the .wine directory in /root, then ran again, but as user, winecfg. This will then put the .wine directory in /home/<username>/.wine , where it belongs. If your not sure how to remove it from /root . Either use KDE's superuser filemanager, or on the CLI. rm -f -r /root/.wine -f is force (when it's gone, it's really gone) -r is recursive and removes directories (not needed if just removing files) All the best. Nigel.> > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
<?xml version="1.0" ?><html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Nigel, Arnand,</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Thanks a lot for your advices!! You've been too kind.</span></font></div> <div align="left"><br/> </div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Regards,</span></font></div> <div align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Matías</span></font></div> <div align="left"></div> </body> </html>