[Wine] is it possible to copy/paste a program into wine dir

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 14:37:27 CDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 2:32 PM, DaVince<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>> I have my portable software I use for my windows xp and windows7, I also have my Diablo 2 LOD game on there, now is it posible to just copy/paste the programs I want into the wine dir and then make a launcher for those , I tried to do this but I get permission errors + errors like this one
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>> > Details: Failed to execute child process "/home/shadowfire/.wine/dosdevices/c:/Diablo_II/Diablo" (No such file or directory)
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> This is not possible, because Wine is something completely seperate from Windows and thus things like registry entries would be missing if you just straight copied the files from a Windows install. Install the game seperately in Wine.

If the game is portable in windows, it should be portable in wine.

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-Austin



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