[Wine] WINEPREFIX - some questions

Gert van den Berg
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:41:28 -0000

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 22:03, snejjj <wineforum-user at winehq.org>
wrote:
> hi there.
>
> I hope this is the right place for asking this.
>
> After reading through the information about WINEPREFIX in the FAQ and the
User Manual, I've still got some questions left:
>
> I (hypotetically) want to create a new clean wine-environment, install the
winetricks d3dx9 package into it, and then run three applications in it. Would
the following commands be the right way to do it?
>
> Code:
>
> WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.new_wine
> winetricks d3dx9
> wine app1.exe
> wine app2.exe
> wine app3.exe
>
>
>
> Or do I need to set the WINEPREFIX again for every command?
> Do I need to run some special command after setting the new WINEPREFIX?
>
You can export it (with 'export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.new_wine') or put it
it on the same line as the command to only export it to that command.

(Read the bash man page's section on enviroment variables and the
export command and the man page for the env command)