[Wine] Prince of Persia 2008 HowTo

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 27 13:06:20 CST 2008


James McKenzie wrote:
> vitamin wrote:
>> xaber1488 wrote:
>>  
>>> And how can I reset the changes done with winetricks? Simply 
>>> removing the libraries overrides?
>>>     
>>
>> Pretty much. Those dlls will still be around but Wine by default 
>> prefers it's own dlls (in most cases).
>>
>> quote="xaber1488"]And to apply them again, should I use again the sh 
>> winetricks comand?[/quote]
>> Should work as well
>>
>>   
> Actually, if you can do this, it is a best practice for installing new 
> programs and tesing with Wine:
>
> Open a terminal session (applies regardless of which operating system 
> you are using)
>
> code:
>
> cd $HOME
> mv .wine{,.backup}
> wine notepad
>
> This will create a new and clean .wine to work in.
>
> Apply all changes made with Winetricks
>
> Then install your program.
>
> Run the program from the command line.
>
> If the program will not run, or if you want to remove all changes 
> again, you can change the move (mv) command to:
>
> mv wine{,.backup1}
>
> Reminder, you might want to 'prune' the number of backups every once 
> in a while to conserve space.
>
> James McKenzie
>
>
>
s/tesing/testing in the first line of my reply.

James McKenzie




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