Need help!!! Newbie to Wine.

Anthony Brice brice.90 at home.com
Mon Aug 6 16:44:42 CDT 2001


No in the Linux Xwindow can you make an association to the application on the
desktop, just like Win98?


Anthony Brice

Christopher Morgan wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by the xterm environment... the windows
> environment and the mapping from local paths to windows drives is done via
> the ./wine/config file, is this the kind of thing you are referring to?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Anthony Brice wrote:
>
> > Fine and understandable. So all I should have to do now is get my Lotus client
> > cd and install the product onto my laptop? If that is the case I will do that.
> > Is there a way to put wine on to execute a program in the Xterm environment?
> >
> > Anthony Brice
> >
> > Brandon Kilgore wrote:
> >
> > > Wine is not designed to give you a windows environment (i.e. Windows
> > > explorer shell), but rather allow you to run windows programs in the X
> > > Windows environment.  To run a windows program, simply make sure the files
> > > are in disk directory that you set up during the wine install, and type
> > > wine program.exe (replacing program.exe with the exucatable you are trying
> > > to run).
> > >
> > >   - Brandon
> > >
> > > At 02:33 PM 8/6/01 +0000, Anthony Brice wrote:
> > > >I have installed Red hat 7.1 on my Ultra Hinote laptop. I was quite
> > > >proud to get my sound working and ethernet/modem card working and X
> > > >window. I was surfing on the web and notice a development product called
> > > >WINE touting the capability to 16/32 API apps in the wine environment
> > > >with it sitting on the Linux kernel. I got the latest rpm from the WINE
> > > >website in rpm format and ran the command rpm -i wine-XXXXX.rpm(simple
> > > >so far). The install seems to go okay (no errors). I tried some
> > > >commands, wine --help and it came up with the help messages. I tried
> > > >wine -v and it told me the release of wine(20010731). What do I do now?
> > > >Does not the environment come up has Windows environment. There is not
> > > >setup.exe or installshield or install.exe to do this, I even looked for
> > > >winesetup.exe with no luck.
> > > >
> > > >If anybody is out there with the patients to speak to a newbie it would
> > > >be greatly appreciated.
> > > >
> > > >How my the way I was thinking of installing wine so I could run my Lotus
> > > >Notes client on it.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >Anthony Brice
> > > >
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