[Wine] Re: Wine: Configuration, Downloading, and Installing for absolute beginners? Help, anyone?

[Duane Clark]

jesuslovinmovienurd at yahoo.com wrote:
> Okay, I know absolutely jack about jack, and it will probably show when
> I ask my first questions.  I have managed to download and install Wine,
> as well as run winecfg.  However, I'm not sure just *how much*
> configuration needs to be done.  The User's Manual made it seem as
> though a lot of it was optional, though I'm not at all sure, and some
> of it is quite daunting to somone who just barely learned how to
> install programs in Ubuntu's Synaptic, much less use the terminal.
> 
> After compilation (I've done a bit already, but am not sure I did
> enough, or even got it right), we get into the actual downloading and
> installation of software.  The user's manual says "...install
> applications into Wine in the same way you would in Windows: by running
> the installer."  But which one?  Where?  HOW?  Not to mention, should I
> download my .exe files anywhere special?
> 
> Specifically, I'm trying to get Monkey's Audio so that I can decompress
> some .ape files I had saved to a disk before my computer blew up.

To install, go to the directory where you put the install file and 
execute (assuming you are installing version 3.99f):
wine MAC_399F.exe
Then you can run it something like:
wine "c:\Program Files\Monkey's Audio\MAC.exe" "Completion Sound.wav" 
"Completion Sound.ape" -c2000