[Wine] Re: documentation for beginners ?`

[richard noel fell]

Daniel -
Following your suggestion, I removed the config file and started afresh 
and all seems to work as expected. I am using wine 0.9.9 and installed 
via synaptic.
 More question to come,
Dick

Daniel Skorka wrote:
> richard noel fell <fell at brandeis.edu> wrote:
>   
>> Is there any documentation that instructs a beginner how to configure 
>> (and the logic behind) wine and the steps necessary to install windows 
>> software? I have the user's guide but it does lack much, particularly 
>> what is going on.
>>     
>
> "User's guide" as in http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index ?
>
>   
>> I am using ubuntu 6.06 and have presumably installed wine correctly. 
>>     
>
> What wine version and how did you install it?
>
>   
>> However, I cannot configure the system. A typical error message is, upon 
>> invoking winecfg, is:
>> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
>> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not 
>> accessible.
>>     
>
> In a correct, fresh install of wine, this does not happen. Try
> 'rm -fr ~/.wine'
>
> If that doesn't help, there is something wrong with your wine
> installation.
>
> Daniel
>