[Wine] Starting WINE

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 18:40:33 CDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 7:31 PM, sgtbob <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> Alan - your reply seems logical to me, but how do I '...let Wine create it's own
>  Windows-like setup on a Linux disk,...' - in other words, what is the exact procedure? I've monkeyed around with this for 6 months and have not been able to run Windows apps through Wine, even though some stuff seems to have been set up on my system which looks liek wine features...
>

login as a normal user (NOT root)

Start with a clean .wine folder.

Run winecfg to setup the cdrom (DO NOT create any links to real
windows systems in any step)

Install the application from the cd

If this fails see appdb.winehq.org first then post here.

John



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