wine users - Jan 2010 - Re: Easily changing directory where program files should be inst

Paul Menzel wrote:
> 
> 1. How is a CLI illiterate user supposed to do this?
> 2. Would the use of different Wine prefixes result in more resource
> usage since for example the registry is not shared?
> 3. Using Wine prefixes gives me more than I asked for, I think. I just
> want all files belonging to program files go into a different directory
> than `~/.wine/`. Still if I do this with Wine prefixes I have to set the
> `WINEPREFIX` variable for the user and the whole Wine configuration and
> installed applications will go there? Is this recommended?
> 

1. Either learn to use the CLI, or use a third party app that provides a user
friendly interface for wineprefix management. Note that if you use a third party
app, it will not be supported here.
http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications

2. You don't have to have many wineprefixes, though there are advantages to
doing so. You can create one wineprefix wherever you want (and even name it
.wine if you so desire) and install all your apps to it.  (Make sure the
location is a native *nix filesystem such as ext2 or ext3.) You will have to set
the WINEPREFIX variable every time you run anything (though it should be added
automatically by winemenubuilder to menu and desktop links). If you don't
specify a different wineprefix, Wine defaults to ~/.wine. But that's all it
is: a default setting. There's nothing special about ~/.wine.

3. If your app's installer prompts you for a location, as many do, you
should be able to browse to wherever you want on your system, even another
partition, and install the program files there, while keeping the registry in
~/.wine, if you really want to. If your app's installer doesn't give you
a choice, you will have to use a different wineprefix. As to whether this is
recommended, most experienced users have multiple wineprefixes. I only use
~/.wine when running regression tests.

Am Samstag, den 02.01.2010, 09:49 -0600 schrieb dimesio:
> Paul Menzel wrote:
> > 
> > 1. How is a CLI illiterate user supposed to do this?
> 
> Either learn to use the CLI,
;-)
> or use a third party app that provides a user friendly interface for
> wineprefix management. Note that if you use a third party app, it will
> not be supported here. http://wiki.winehq.org/ThirdPartyApplications
Do all of the listed applications support setting the ProgramFiles
directory in a using a graphical interface?

Can you recommend one?
> > 2. Would the use of different Wine prefixes result in more resource
> > usage since for example the registry is not shared?
> 
> You don't have to have many wineprefixes, though there are advantages
> to doing so.
[?]

Thanks, but does it use more resources?
> > 3. Using Wine prefixes gives me more than I asked for, I think. I just
> > want all files belonging to program files go into a different
directory
> > than `~/.wine/`. Still if I do this with Wine prefixes I have to set
the
> > `WINEPREFIX` variable for the user and the whole Wine configuration
and
> > installed applications will go there? Is this recommended?
>
> If your app's installer prompts you for a location, as many do, you
> should be able to browse to wherever you want on your system, even
> another partition, and install the program files there, while keeping
> the registry in ~/.wine, if you really want to.
That is true, indeed, but very cumbersome and most users do not care to
change it (I have seen this yesterday.), so it would be nice to as an
admin or whatever to configure this.

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