wine users - Apr 2003 - Question- about Wine How To

-reference         http://www.winehq.com/?page=howto

There's a statement in the Wine HowTo that goes: (quote-verbatim)

"The following directories must exist in your $HOME directory"

Exactly what is meant by " your $HOME " directory? This may seem to
be a stupid newbie question but I sometimes have a problem if the writer
uses some personal favorite way of stating something and I'm not
sure if this is the case here.  I can't find a directory called
$HOME in my Progeny Debian so I was wondering if I have to create it
somewhere.

Is this just the ordinary  /home  directory or is it some
directory (or file) that is actually labelled " $HOME " and if
it is, could someone elaborate on where it is located?



alex

> There's a statement in the Wine HowTo that goes: (quote-verbatim)
> 
> "The following directories must exist in your $HOME directory"
> 
> Exactly what is meant by " your $HOME " directory?
Usually "/home/username"

But since $HOME is an environment variable, you could type 'echo $HOME'
to see what it is set to.
> This may seem to
> be a stupid newbie question but I sometimes have a problem if the writer
> uses some personal favorite way of stating something and I'm not
> sure if this is the case here.
I don't think that the writer of this howto invented this way of talking
about home directories. It's pretty standard.
>  I can't find a directory called
> $HOME in my Progeny Debian so I was wondering if I have to create it
> somewhere.
See above, it exists.
> Is this just the ordinary  /home  directory or is it some
> directory (or file) that is actually labelled " $HOME " and if
> it is, could someone elaborate on where it is located?
It is not "/home", but "/home/username", so every user has
his own $HOME. Root's is a bit special, usually beeing just
"/root".

Hope this helps.

/Fredrik Persson