I am absolutely new to wine, and as such, am fairly clueless as to how to maneuver wine in terminal--or even maneuver in terminal, at all. I am interested in learning. The funny thing is: all the threads in the "Absolute Beginners" section of the forum is generally pretty far beyond my comprehension. So, I'm wondering if someone could refer me to a introductory guide to using script in unix-like systems and, specifically, wine. Thanks.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, ozarzus<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:> I am absolutely new to wine, and as such, am fairly clueless as to how to maneuver wine in terminal--or even maneuver in terminal, at all. I am interested in learning. The funny thing is: all the threads in the "Absolute Beginners" section of the forum is generally pretty far beyond my comprehension. So, I'm wondering if someone could refer me to a introductory guide to using script in unix-like systems and, specifically, wine. Thanks.Don't know of any for wine, specifically, but try: http://www.hacktheday.com/beginners-guide-to-apple-terminal-part-1/ http://www.macinstruct.com/node/47 -- -Austin
You can find the terminal inside your Gnome menu. Open it. From here, you really only need to know two commands in order to be able to run any Wine application: cd directoryname wine appname.exe For everything else you'll need a basic understanding of how things work in Linux, for example: - Mounted disks/CDs/USB drives can be found in /media/ - Your "My Documents" directory = /home/your-username/ in Linux. - Wine makes its own whole "installation" to install and run applications in, this can be found in /home/username/.wine/ - The short version for /home/username/ is ~/ For all other important information on using the Linux shell/terminal, I suggest you use Google, and maybe www.ubuntuforums.org. :)
hey... thanks a lot for all the prompt replies. i will definitely look into the beginners' guides suggested in the replies. shortly after posting the thread, i came upon this crossover application, which seems to integrate the wine app into a pretty user-friendly interface. even though i only have the trial for thirty days, that should serve to sate my need for a quest for glory V fix. but i'll definitely look into all the suggested material, because all this GNU-Linux stuff really interests me... thanks again.