[Wine] Moving wine from one computer to another

Phil Reynolds phil at tinsleyviaduct.com
Tue Jan 10 11:09:17 CST 2006


On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 09:34:33AM +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a working wine installation one one computer including several 
> installed programs. Now I would like to move the .wine folder, which as 
> I understand it contains all the configuration details and windows file 
> and registry, to another conputer. What is the easiest way to do this?
> 
> I installed already the same wine version (0.9.3) on the other computer.
> 
> How can I move the .wine directory? Simply copying does not work, as the 
> shortcots are lost.
> 
> I can't use WineTools, as I don't get it to run on the second computer 
> (see my previous email "Problem with WineTools - unexpected identifier").

tar it up and copy the tarfile across, then extract it. You will
probably also want to do the same with ~/bin

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