Help. I recently switched over to linux (because windows sucks). I love linux, but i need some windows apps to run, (like iTunes), so I installed Wine... however, I am used tot he old windows filesystem and not the linux one, and I can't find the .wine directory. I thought it should be under "filesystem," right? But it's not... Can anyone tell me where my .wine dir might be?
It'll be in your home directory. Wine won't create your .wine directory until you actually run it (so it may not be there at all). You might be having a problem with the fact that files starting with . on linux are considered "hidden". Using "ls" to get a list of files will not show them, but "ls -a" will. If you open a terminal, it will start at your home directory, and typing "cd .wine" will get you to .wine if it's there. On 31 May 2006 14:42:03 -0700, RailroadMonster@gmail.com <RailroadMonster@gmail.com> wrote:> Help. I recently switched over to linux (because windows sucks). I love > linux, but i need some windows apps to run, (like iTunes), so I > installed Wine... however, I am used tot he old windows filesystem and > not the linux one, and I can't find the .wine directory. I thought it > should be under "filesystem," right? But it's not... Can anyone tell me > where my .wine dir might be? > > _______________________________________________ > wine-users mailing list > wine-users@winehq.org > http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users >-- Vincent Povirk
RailroadMonster@gmail.com wrote:> Help. I recently switched over to linux (because windows sucks). I love > linux, but i need some windows apps to run, (like iTunes), so I > installed Wine... however, I am used tot he old windows filesystem and > not the linux one, and I can't find the .wine directory. I thought it > should be under "filesystem," right? But it's not... Can anyone tell me > where my .wine dir might be?It is a hidden directory, but it is located in users home directory. For example if your username is noob, it would propably be /home/noob/.wine/ You can get there from command line by command: cd ~/.wine (The ~ is for getting to your home directory, so simple: cd .wine is enough, if you are already at your home directory (for example /home/noob/ ) ) And from GUI, if you are using for example Ubuntu and Nautilus as your filemanager, it you make sure that "view->show hidden files" is selected.
At 2006-05-31 22:26 +0000, Aggro wrote:>RailroadMonster@gmail.com wrote: >>Help. I recently switched over to linux (because windows sucks). I love >>linux, but i need some windows apps to run, (like iTunes), so I >>installed Wine... however, I am used tot he old windows filesystem and >>not the linux one, and I can't find the .wine directory. I thought it >>should be under "filesystem," right? But it's not... Can anyone tell me >>where my .wine dir might be? > >It is a hidden directory, but it is located in users home directory. For >example if your username is noob, it would propably be /home/noob/.wine/ > >You can get there from command line by command: cd ~/.wine >(The ~ is for getting to your home directory, so simple: cd .wine is >enough, if you are already at your home directory (for example /home/noob/ ) ) > >And from GUI, if you are using for example Ubuntu and Nautilus as your >filemanager, it you make sure that "view->show hidden files" is selected. >_______________________________________________ >wine-users mailing list >wine-users@winehq.org >http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-usersTo clarify just a little. Linux (Unix) does not really have a concept of a hidden file. However, programs which list files (like "ls") abide by a convention that files whose names begin with "." are not listed. This goes back a long way. It probably started with avoiding listing "." (a special name that points to its directory) and ".." (another special name which points to its parent directory). It was probably easier to ignore anything that began with "." rather than test for the special cases. Following this people who wanted not to clutter their file listings with configuration files and directories took to naming them such that they began with a ".".
RailroadMonster@gmail.com writes:> Help. I recently switched over to linux (because windows sucks). I love > linux, but i need some windows apps to run, (like iTunes), so I > installed Wine... however, I am used tot he old windows filesystem and > not the linux one, and I can't find the .wine directory. I thought it > should be under "filesystem," right? But it's not... Can anyone tell me > where my .wine dir might be?If you need iTunes, check out SharpMusique: <http://nanocrew.net/software/sharpmusique/> -- Hilsen Harald.
On 31 May 2006 14:42:03 -0700 RailroadMonster@gmail.com wrote:> Help. I recently switched over to linux (because windows sucks). I love > linux, but i need some windows apps to run, (like iTunes), so I > installed Wine... however, I am used tot he old windows filesystem and > not the linux one, and I can't find the .wine directory. I thought it > should be under "filesystem," right? But it's not... Can anyone tell me > where my .wine dir might be? >Hi, it is located in your home (~) directory cd ~/.wine and you shall see it -w
On Wed, 31 May 2006 14:42:03 -0700, RailroadMonster wrote:> I thought it should be under "filesystem," right? But it's not... Can > anyone tell me where my .wine dir might be?In the file open dialog box right click and select "Show hidden files" to see it. Probably we should change this so it's not hidden :)