Wine help with Mandrake 8.1?

gerard patel g.patel at wanadoo.fr.invalid
Tue Oct 30 19:49:46 CST 2001


On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:02:36 -0500, Tragic Comic <tc at no.mail> wrote:

>I'm a complete Linux newbie only having installed Mandrake 8.1
>a couple days ago.  I went to www.winehq.org and grabbed the latest
>version of Wine from a link.   The install seemed to go smoothly
>using Mdk's package manager.
>
>But..  how ido I use this program??  I don't see it in my program
>menu anywhere.  The only instances of Wine that can find are in
>usr/lib/wine  (I think that's where it was).

Wine is alpha software... don't expect too much.
It is aimed at software developers, not exactly at 
newbies.

>My goal is is to get Agent 1.8 up and running using this application.
>Any help is greatly appreciated.

Try to create a script along the lines of :

cd <path to agent>
wine -managed agent.exe

Gerard



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