The original post can be found here: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=10709&highlight= Secured wrote:> > vitamin wrote: > > Unless you want to run multiple versions of Wine. > > [Shocked] Multiple versions?!?! Umm... that might be what I am looking for. Let me know if you agree based on the following. > Spider.exe is now working, and once that happened, I added another program. The challenge is that I can not run both > at the same time is either one or the other. Or basically running the same program twice.Nope! Running multiple versions is not what I am looking for.
>> Spider.exe is now working, and once that happened, I added another program. ?The challenge is that ?I can not run both >> at the same time is either one or the other. ?Or basically running the same program twice.I am confused. Of course you can run multiple applications under wine at the same time. Do you mean run multiple full screen applications? John
Secured wrote:> Running multiple versions is not what I am looking for.http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-f2f5f3bc795247f11962ea613a1f9e15657ad552
Aah, repetition! Or echo? vitamin, thank you, I am beginning to understand it, finally. My next question was what exactly are wine prefixes? Then went searching and got here: http://www.winehq.org/search/?cx=partner-pub-0971840239976722%3Aw9sqbcsxtyf&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=wineprefixes&siteurl=www.winehq.org%2Fdocs%2Fwineusr-guide%2Fwineserver-command-line-options#1293 and found the same question on the third post here: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=9657&sid=940072f62c7f7a22a4ea124db3622534
> From what I have been reading, it seems that I have to create a separate folder for each app, or instance of it, is that true? > > I am having a problem, created folder /home/user/.wine/abc then created launcher with the command > WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine/abc wine spider.exe and got an error :( what-did-I-miss? ?...more reading require, eh? >Run it in the terminal before you start creating launchers. John
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 7:44 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:>> From what I have been reading, it seems that I have to create a separate folder for each app, or instance of it, is that true? >> >> I am having a problem, created folder /home/user/.wine/abc then created launcher with the command >> WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine/abc wine spider.exe and got an error :( what-did-I-miss? ?...more reading require, eh? >> > > Run it in the terminal before you start creating launchers. >That is to make sure it is working and to better debug if it is not. -- John M. Drescher
On 1/1/11 5:40 PM, Secured wrote:> Aah, repetition! Or echo? vitamin, thank you, I am beginning to understand it, finally. My next question was what exactly are wine prefixes? > Then went searching and got here: http://www.winehq.org/search/?cx=partner-pub-0971840239976722%3Aw9sqbcsxtyf&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=wineprefixes&siteurl=www.winehq.org%2Fdocs%2Fwineusr-guide%2Fwineserver-command-line-options#1293 > and found the same question on the third post here: > http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=9657&sid=940072f62c7f7a22a4ea124db3622534 > > > From what I have been reading, it seems that I have to create a separate folder for each app, or instance of it, is that true? > > I am having a problem, created folder /home/user/.wine/abc then created launcher with the command > WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.wine/abc wine spider.exe and got an error :( what-did-I-miss? ...more reading require, eh? >Try creating a folder called $HOME/wineabc Then set use the command: export WINEPREFIX=%HOME/wineabc Then run the program wine spider.exe Then advise what happens. James McKenzie