[Wine] Re: please help a WINE noob...

[Daniel Skorka]

s1mple_m4n <s1mple.m4n at gmail.com> wrote:
> WINE and it installed OK, but when I typed wine dora.exe in a terminal
> screen I got the error: "wine: could not load
> L"c:\\windows\\system32\\dora.exe": Module not found".
> 
> The Dora game is installed in Program Files, so how can I point the
> terminal instruction to the game exe?

$ cd .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/where/dora/is
$ wine dora.exe

> In WINE config I added the dora.exe to the applications tab.

This is only necessary if you want to have special (different from the
default) settings for dora.exe.

> As a Linux newbie I am still having a bit of trouble with configuring
> applications, and I haven't found any simple instructions online yet.

Have you read http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index ?
For info on particular apps see http://appdb.winehq.org/ and
http://frankscorner.org/

daniel