wine users - Oct 2009 - Wine is used WORDsearch mac but doesn't work in Linux?

WORDsearch 8 Bible is a program for Windows and the publishers have made it
available for mac users - on the website it says this is made possible through
Wine. So the mac users are opening the same program as the Windows users, but
Wine is what makes it available. Hoewever, I have Ububtu 8.04 (Linux) and I am
brand new (switched from Windows) to Linux. I would like to have WORDsearch but
Wine won't run it on Linux. Why is that? Is this going to be available on
the new version of Wine when it comes out to download (and what time frame would
that be)? I can't understand the source download and git trees How would I
use the source download to get the latest Wine? Or am I the problem in running
the current Wine? Am I doing something wrong? Should this be running fine but
I'm messing up somewhere? I wanted to put this on the Bugzilla but I am so
new to this I don't know how to do that right. Basically, The program opens
to its main screen to choose "enter library", "daily
reading", "search for books" or something like that - anyway I
can click all day long on those options and never go anywhere, and if I click on
the bottom of that screen to look for online updates it kicks me off. I would
appreciate any possible help. Thank You

vallesrobertson wrote:
> WORDsearch 8 Bible is a program for Windows and the publishers have made it
available for mac users - on the website it says this is made possible through
Wine.
This is a first.  A program that will run on Wine on a Mac, but not on
Linux.
>So the mac users are opening the same program as the Windows users, but Wine
is what makes it available. However, I have Ububtu 8.04 (Linux) and I am brand
new >(switched from Windows) to Linux. I would like to have WORDsearch but
Wine won't run it on Linux. Why is that? Is this going to be available on
the new version of >Wine when it comes out to download (and what time frame
would that be)? I can't understand the source download and git trees How
would I use the source download >to get the latest Wine? Or am I the problem
in running the current Wine? Am I doing something wrong? Should this be running
fine but I'm messing up somewhere? I >wanted to put this on the Bugzilla
but I am so new to this I don't know how to do that right. Basically, The
program opens to its main screen to choose "enter >library",
"daily reading", "search for books" or something like that -
anyway I can click all day long on those options and never go anywhere, and if I
click on >the bottom of that screen to look for online updates it kicks me
off. I would appreciate any possible help. Thank You


So, let's gather some information.

1.  What are the results of attempting to run the program from the
command line (terminal)?

Also what Wine version are you trying to use?

Thank you.

James McKenzie

James McKenzie wrote:
> 
> So, let's gather some information.
> 
> 1.  What are the results of attempting to run the program from the
> command line (terminal)?
> 
> Also what Wine version are you trying to use?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> James McKenzie

How would I try and run the program from the terminal? 

I don't know what version of Wine I am using; I did install it from the
terminal according to the instructions on Winehq download page