[Wine] Re: Using native Dlls from original Win2000

[Robert M. Riches Jr.]

On 2007-01-26, Pete Ricksecker <rick2210 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Robert M. Riches Jr. wrote:
>> On 2007-01-26, Pete Ricksecker <rick2210 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Duane Clark wrote:
>>>> Pete Ricksecker wrote:
>>>>> I have an app (Quicken) that looks for IE 5.5 and installing ies4linux 
>>>>> does not correct it as Quicken still does not find IE.
>>>> To install and use another app with IE installed by ies4linux, you need 
>>>> to set an environment variable, for example:
>>>> export WINEPREFIX="/home/dclark/.ies4linux/ie6"
>>>>
>>>> Notice that ies4linux creates a ~/bin directory. In that directory is 
>>>> typically a single file (unless you installed several versions of IE). 
>>>> That file is a simple script. If you are using the icon that was put on 
>>>> your desktop to run IE, notice that the "command" that it executes 
>>>> (right click on the icon) is similar to "/home/dclark/bin/ie6". And 
>>>> notice that the first thing the script does is to set the WINEPREFIX 
>>>> environment variable.
>>> Okay.  I executed "export WINEPREFIX="/home/rick2210/.ies4linux/ie6" " 
>>> from a shell now Quicken won't even start up.  It was starting up before 
>>> doing this, just could not connect to internet.
>> 
>> Is your Quicken installation in the prefix area in the
>> specified path?  If not, fixing that may help.
>> 
>
> If by prefix area in the specified path do you mean 
> "/home/rick2210/.ies4linux/ie6"?

Yes.  When environment variable WINEPREFIX is set, that
becomes the root of the fake-windows area, instead of
$HOME/.wine.  You need to have the same WINEPREFIX value
when you install an app vs. try to use it.

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