wine users - Mar 2007 - Wine: Configuration, Downloading, and Installing for absolute beginners? Help, anyone?

jesuslovinmovienurd@yahoo.com wrote:
> Okay, I know absolutely jack about jack, and it will probably show when
> I ask my first questions.  I have managed to download and install Wine,
> as well as run winecfg.  However, I'm not sure just *how much*
> configuration needs to be done.  The User's Manual made it seem as
> though a lot of it was optional, though I'm not at all sure, and some
> of it is quite daunting to somone who just barely learned how to
> install programs in Ubuntu's Synaptic, much less use the terminal.
> 
> After compilation (I've done a bit already, but am not sure I did
> enough, or even got it right), we get into the actual downloading and
> installation of software.  The user's manual says "...install
> applications into Wine in the same way you would in Windows: by running
> the installer."  But which one?  Where?  HOW?  Not to mention, should
I
> download my .exe files anywhere special?
> 
> Specifically, I'm trying to get Monkey's Audio so that I can
decompress
> some .ape files I had saved to a disk before my computer blew up.
To install, go to the directory where you put the install file and 
execute (assuming you are installing version 3.99f):
wine MAC_399F.exe
Then you can run it something like:
wine "c:\Program Files\Monkey's Audio\MAC.exe" "Completion
Sound.wav"
"Completion Sound.ape" -c2000

jesuslovinmovienurd@yahoo.com wrote:
> After compilation (I've done a bit already, but am not sure I did
> enough, or even got it right), we get into the actual downloading and
> installation of software.  The user's manual says "...install
> applications into Wine in the same way you would in Windows: by running
> the installer."  But which one?  Where?  HOW?  Not to mention, should
I
> download my .exe files anywhere special?
The installer is whereever you put it. Because Bill Gates in his
infinite wisdom chose to hide file extensions from the user, you
propably aren't aware that those colorful little pictures actually stand
for exectuables (in windows terminology, files with the extension
'.exe')

Daniel
-- 
Before you post:
Read the Wine User Guide http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index
When you post:
Which wine version? Self compiled or prepackaged?

The installer for the Windows application you want to add.  From the
command line it would be:  wine c:\setup.exe (if you put it in the
~/.wine/drive_c folder) or a:\setup.exe (floppy) or d:\setup.exe
(cd-rom), etc.  Another way is to run winefile and just click on the
executable.  If there isn't an icon in your desktops menu for it just
enter "winefile" in a terminal window.  Winefile is an ugly clone of
the old Windows File Manager but it works.

jesuslovinmovienurd@yahoo.com wrote:
> After compilation (I've done a bit already, but am not sure I did
> enough, or even got it right), we get into the actual downloading and
> installation of software.  The user's manual says "...install
> applications into Wine in the same way you would in Windows: by running
> the installer."  But which one?  Where?  HOW?  Not to mention, should
I
> download my .exe files anywhere special?

Okay, I know absolutely jack about jack, and it will probably show when
I ask my first questions.  I have managed to download and install Wine,
as well as run winecfg.  However, I'm not sure just *how much*
configuration needs to be done.  The User's Manual made it seem as
though a lot of it was optional, though I'm not at all sure, and some
of it is quite daunting to somone who just barely learned how to
install programs in Ubuntu's Synaptic, much less use the terminal.

After compilation (I've done a bit already, but am not sure I did
enough, or even got it right), we get into the actual downloading and
installation of software.  The user's manual says "...install
applications into Wine in the same way you would in Windows: by running
the installer."  But which one?  Where?  HOW?  Not to mention, should I
download my .exe files anywhere special?

Specifically, I'm trying to get Monkey's Audio so that I can decompress
some .ape files I had saved to a disk before my computer blew up.

Help?

-Tim