[Wine] Clean enviroments in Wine

[Martin Gregorie]

On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:16 -0600, bigseb wrote:
> I read somewhere that in order for a program to work properly in Wine it should be installed in a clean enviroment, something along the lines of one software conflicting with anothers drivers/runtime/apps/etc. Is this true? Does this mean that I can only have one program installed with Wine at a time?
> 
> Can one not create several 'fresh enviroments'?
> 
Yes, you can create as many environments, known as 'prefixes' as you
want:

cd $HOME			
mkdir .wine_myapp
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_myapp"
# now install and run your application

After that you might find it worthwhile to use a wrapper script to run
the app. Here's a howto:
http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/wine/launcher_script.html


Martin