[Wine] Re: Need help with a bug in wine

[Bob Wya]

Fredd wrote:
> Yeah, ok. I installed F.E.A.R. from DVD. Also i didn't install it on drive c i installed it on root, drive z. 
> I tried installing it several times and the result is the same. Somehow the installation is not recognized and so i can't apply the patch and i can't apply the crack and i can't play the game. 
> I would install it with Playonlinux but there is this problem with the cd key, the font is to big and it doesn't fit the box. I have taken care of it if i install it with wine but not if i install it with Playonlinux. Plus i can't find Sacred in the games Playonlinux has so i can't try that either.


1) RTFM
Wine FAQ : 7.11. Should I run Wine as root? (http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014)

2) Applications need to be installed on the 'C:\' drive in Wine as far as I am aware... Certainly they can't be installed outside of your /home folder as your user wouldn't (probably/shouldn't) have write access permissions...

FYI Take a look at the following folder (default prefix folder in which Wine stores all the Windows filesystem) in your file manager application:

Code:
~/.wine


You will see the Windows dos drive letters are mapped using symbolic links in the dosdevices folder.

Bob