wine users - Sep 2008 - Silly answers to silly questions for a silly Noob.

OK, I'm a noob to Wine.  I've figured some stuff out with Wine and it
sees everything I want it to see just fine.

OK, I understand why you don't want Wine to see your windows install, but I
put all my program installs on a separate partition.  Now with this in mind can
I just have Wine look at my Program Files and run my apps from there, or do I
have to reinstall all the apps I want Wine to run on my Linux partition via
Wine?

I'm not worried about running applications such as Office suites or Mail
clients.  Everything work wise I can do in Windows I can do in Linux and I have
all my data synced.  In fact I can do more with Linux than I can do in WinXP
anyways, and most times better, faster, and more secure anyway.

So with that, There's only a few things I want to run in Wine, mostly older
games I have hanging around since the Win95 era.  Mostly stuff that doesn't
run in SCUMMVM or DOSBOX.  Such as Baldur's Gate II, Escape From Monkey
Island, Grim Fandango, and other such classics.

JDorfler <wineforum-user at winehq.org> at Sep 23, 2008 9:39 AM (MST)
wrote about [Wine]  Silly answers to silly questions for a silly
Noob.
>
>OK, I'm a noob to Wine.  I've figured some stuff out with Wine and
it sees everything I want it to see just fine.
>
Welcome to the Wine Club!
>OK, I understand why you don't want Wine to see your windows install,
but I put all my program installs on a separate partition.  Now with this in
mind can I just have Wine look at my Program Files and run my apps from there,
or do I have to reinstall all the apps I want Wine to run on my Linux partition
via Wine?
>
You should reinstall all of the applications to insure that registry changes are
written to the Wine registry by the program's installer.  Without these
changes and updates, your programs may not run.  Also, it is suggested that you
have one version installed for Windows and another for Wine.  You should NOT
link the C:\Program Files from any Windows installation to replace the
C:\Program Files in Wine.  This is discussed in the Frequently Asked Questions
area on Wine HQ.
>So with that, There's only a few things I want to run in Wine, mostly
older games I have hanging around since the Win95 era.  Mostly stuff that
doesn't run in SCUMMVM or DOSBOX.  Such as Baldur's Gate II, Escape From
Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and other such classics.
Please visit the Applications Database to discover what must be done, if
anything, to make these games run under Wine.  Some older games do not run
properly because of requirements that the games impose on the Windows API that
Wine does not presently support.

James McKenzie

I think the answer to this question is that you want to re-install everything in
Linux.
It's easy. 
Just put the program's installation file (for example monkeyisland.exe) on
your desktop, navigate there in a terminal, and run

wine monkeyisland

Should work like a charm. You can with some distributions just double-click on
monkeyisland and the distro will recognize that an exe file runs with wine.



-----Original Message-----
>From: JDorfler <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
>Sent: Sep 23, 2008 12:39 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: [Wine]  Silly answers to silly questions for a silly Noob.
>
>OK, I'm a noob to Wine.  I've figured some stuff out with Wine and
it sees everything I want it to see just fine.
>
>OK, I understand why you don't want Wine to see your windows install,
but I put all my program installs on a separate partition.  Now with this in
mind can I just have Wine look at my Program Files and run my apps from there,
or do I have to reinstall all the apps I want Wine to run on my Linux partition
via Wine?
>
>I'm not worried about running applications such as Office suites or Mail
clients.  Everything work wise I can do in Windows I can do in Linux and I have
all my data synced.  In fact I can do more with Linux than I can do in WinXP
anyways, and most times better, faster, and more secure anyway.
>
>So with that, There's only a few things I want to run in Wine, mostly
older games I have hanging around since the Win95 era.  Mostly stuff that
doesn't run in SCUMMVM or DOSBOX.  Such as Baldur's Gate II, Escape From
Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and other such classics.
>
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Thanks.