[Wine] Wine Executes Locally, But Not With Absolute Path

[James McKenzie]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:21 AM, winepunk <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> I have an uninstalled portable Windows .exe.
>
> When I type the absolute path, it doesn't work:
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>> wine /home/ubuntu/appDir/myApp.exe
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> but, if I cd to the application directory and execute it locally, it works:
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> Code:
> cd /home/ubuntu/appDir/
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> wine myApp.exe

This is how Windows does it and this is how Wine does it.  This is not
going to change.

>  I'm trying to include it in my Docky dock via a .desktop shortcut I've made in /usr/share/applications/. I don't mind
> the command line for under the hood stuff, but not for launching typical user apps.

You need to ask on the Ubuntu forums how to do this.

James