[Wine] Starting WINE

[sgtbob]

I tried your suggestion and met with varying results - but still reading and
trying.

I have two identical 160 GB HDD's - one with Windows installed and one with
Ubuntu installed. Can you tell me if the .exe has to reside on the windows
drive or on the Ubuntu drive?  I have met with limited results in trying to
do a wine Legacy6Setup.exe from the terminal - basically says not
available...

I 'think' I was able to install the Legacy program by putting it on my
Ubuntu desktop, but when I tried to run it, I encountered an 'error 545 ' or
some such number. I have been able to access the 'C:' drive, which I presume
is on the Windows HDD, but when I try to open a file from Legacy (eg.
Bob.fdb - which is my genealogy file), the only .fdb seen is one that is a
sample.fdb that came with the program, which will not load, even though I
can see teh fiel I want if I go to Windows.

Maybe I'm expecting too much from Wine with my limited knowledge of Linux. 
What I had hoped to do was to use my Ubuntu to work with files and programs
installed on my Windows HDD with the Ubuntu Wine package. Am I
misinterpreting what it should/would do?




Dan Kegel-2 wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:07 PM, sgtbob <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>> Dan - how do you run the application if I do not see an .exe file?
>> This may sound dumber than a box of hammers, but I am unable to figure
>> the operation out....
> 
> I remember well the first time I sat down in front of
> a Macintosh (in 1982?).  Couldn't run a damn thing.
> Turned out the trick was to double-click.  Boy was
> I embarrassed, and mad...
> 
> Anyway, go find the .exe with your usual linux desktop file manager.
> Installing Wine should magically endow it with the ability to
> run .exe's by double-clicking on them (or right-clicking on them and
> picking "Run With..." /usr/bin/wine.)
> 
> Alternately, find 'em on the commandline, and run them by putting
> 'wine' in front of them.
> - Dan
> 
> 
> 

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