Hi, I've finally, after much deliberation, taken the plunge and installed Suse 9.1 onto one of my PCs at home - why I never did it sooner I didn't really know until I came to "install" Wine; now I'm pretty comfortable with Windows and "thought" things would be pretty much the same with Linux - first mistake! Anyway, I'm hoping that someone will be able to give me some REALLY simple instructions in how to get Wins installed - I've downloaded wine-20041019-SuSELinux81.i586.rpm and believe that I have installed the package correctly through YaST - but what now? I have genuinely read through the readme and have tried to make sense of the HowTo's buts I guess I am just one of those slow-to-convert-from-Windows kinda guys! Any help would be very greatly appreciated! Cheers Allan
Try wine --version just to set things up, and then wine notepad to start a simple app. If that works, then you need to do an install of your Windows app. Mount the cdrom, then cd /mnt/cdrom/XXX to whereever the install program is. (Usually called install.exe or setup.exe) Then tun wine install.exe and see if it works. In my experience you should look at the wineHQ App database before you do this and try installing something that's known to work. Good luck, Mark On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:24:44 +0000, Allan Young <allan@desk2web.co.uk> wrote:> Hi, I've finally, after much deliberation, taken the plunge and installed Suse > 9.1 onto one of my PCs at home - why I never did it sooner I didn't really > know until I came to "install" Wine; now I'm pretty comfortable with Windows > and "thought" things would be pretty much the same with Linux - first > mistake! > > Anyway, I'm hoping that someone will be able to give me some REALLY simple > instructions in how to get Wins installed - I've downloaded > wine-20041019-SuSELinux81.i586.rpm and believe that I have installed the > package correctly through YaST - but what now? I have genuinely read through > the readme and have tried to make sense of the HowTo's buts I guess I am just > one of those slow-to-convert-from-Windows kinda guys! > > Any help would be very greatly appreciated! > > Cheers > > Allan > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >
Hi Allan, If you are used to a command line, you can use Wine as Mark suggested. Alternatively, you can do everything without it. If you use a graphical file browser like Konqueror, and you have a Windows program somewhere on disk, you can click on that .EXE file, and in the "Open with" dialog just type "wine". If you have an existing MS Windows partition on your hard drive that you want Wine to know about, I think that has to be set up by hand, and I don't know a way to do this without going to the command prompt. (It might be possible, I just don't know it). - Walter On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Allan Young wrote:> Hi, I've finally, after much deliberation, taken the plunge and installed Suse > 9.1 onto one of my PCs at home - why I never did it sooner I didn't really > know until I came to "install" Wine; now I'm pretty comfortable with Windows > and "thought" things would be pretty much the same with Linux - first > mistake! > > Anyway, I'm hoping that someone will be able to give me some REALLY simple > instructions in how to get Wins installed - I've downloaded > wine-20041019-SuSELinux81.i586.rpm and believe that I have installed the > package correctly through YaST - but what now? I have genuinely read through > the readme and have tried to make sense of the HowTo's buts I guess I am just > one of those slow-to-convert-from-Windows kinda guys! > > Any help would be very greatly appreciated! > > Cheers > > Allan > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >