It's been a while since I used LTSpice, but it always worked on Wine no
matter which distro I was running. However, I recently installed it on both
Mint 11 and Mint 12 and had the same problems.
The first problem I noticed was when I installed it, it placed the desktop
configuration file on my Mint desktop. I had never seen that happen before.
The second problem was that the application would launch fine if I either opened
the desktop configuration file directly or copy and pasted the command it had in
its properties window to a terminal window and executed it. The app would not
run from the menu. All that would happen is an error message, "File not
found".
The desktop configure file command was:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/carltons/.wine" wine c:\\Program\
Files\\LTC\\LTspiceIV\\scad3.exe
The Wine menu command is:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/carltons/.wine" wine
c:\\windows\\command\\start.exe /Unix
/home/carltons/.wine/dosdevices/c:/users/carltons/Start\ Menu/LTspice\ IV.lnk
I've listed all the paths in both commands and all the files exist in the
correct sub directories. I also checked the lines to make sure that all the
spaces and \'s were escaped properly. I'm really at a loss as to where
the missing file is. The other real puzzlement to me was the /Unix of the menu
command, but I'm not familiar with the syntax of this command, I'm not a
software engineer by any means. I did a :
sudo find / -name \/Unix -type d and got no return. At that point I just
thought that maybe the command was off into the cloud to retrieve it before
finally returning its output. I am well past my capabilities at this point.
[Embarassed]