[Embarassed] G'Day, New to Ubuntu, new to wine, need help, When I enter "winecfg" I get thismiykle at miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"c:\\windows" (2) What does it mean and how do I proceed from here. I have UBUNTU 7.10 Comp. has two HD's one with windows other with Linux. Many Blessings Miykle [Rolling Eyes]
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:16 AM, miykle <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> [Embarassed] G'Day, New to Ubuntu, new to wine, need help, > When I enter "winecfg" I get thismiykle at miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. > err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"c:\\windows" (2) > > What does it mean and how do I proceed from here. > I have UBUNTU 7.10 > Comp. has two HD's one with windows other with Linux. > Many Blessings Miykle > > [Rolling Eyes] > > > > > >Try: $ rm -rf ~/.wine $ winecfg And see if that helps.
miykle wrote:> [Embarassed] G'Day, New to Ubuntu, new to wine, need help, > When I enter "winecfg" I get thismiykle at miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. > Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. > err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"c:\\windows" (2) > >Also, please keep in mind that one should not run Wine as root as this looks like what you might have tried or you installed Wine as root and it created a .wine folder under the $HOME directory for the user you are trying to run winecfg as. Please do the following: rm -rf ~/.wine if you receive error messages about not being able to do so, then do the following: sudo rm -rf ~/.wine type in your user password and then winecfg which will recreate the ~/.wine folder as the present user with appropriate permissions. Thank you. James McKenzie
G'Day ; Thanks for the prompt reply, I entered those instructions and got this ; miykle at miykle-desktop:~$ sudo rm -rf ~/.wine miykle at miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg wine: creating configuration directory '/home/miykle/.wine'... Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled. wine: '/home/miykle/.wine' created successfully. fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet miykle at miykle-desktop:~$ When the wine dialogue box opens what do I enter if anything ?? Many Blessings Miykle
G'Day : Thanks again for the reply, I apologize if I did the wrong thing with posting twice, as I said I'm new to this whole deal. I used winecfg because thats what the wine site told me I should do, I don't understand why it's the wrong thing to do , and if I might, whats "root" mean. I've only been using this OS for three days so please be patient, it's so different to windows, but thats the whole point, to learn something new. The things James McKenzie told me to do worked fine. I'm using wine because I was told I could run my programs for windows in wine, as they are not compatible with Linux, They are , what I call active libraries, you open say "AGES LIBRARY" and then you have the option of 25 different books to choose from as well as being able to cross reference the same topic in several books, I have 6 of these libraries all pertaining to different subject matter, all the books are in PDF format. So I got wine and finally installed it and loaded 1 library, it worked fine but was in Greek instead of English ??? Many thanks Miykle