[Wine] New to Linux and Wine, need to know a few things

[doug]

On 01/09/2012 07:43 PM, semint wrote:
> doug wrote:
>> You install Wine with the package manager that comes with your Linux distro.  Then you download the win ap, or put it in
>> CD/DVD reader, and just install it, as if you were in Windows.  Go get
>> the .exe file, snap on it, and it will install.
>
> So what you're saying is that Wine works on its own as a Windows installation, it doesn't need a real Windows to run, just software that runs under Windows?
>
>
That's correct.  And you can put an icon on the desktop for the program 
you want to run, just as if it were a Windows
system. Snap on the icon, and the program will run. (Assuming you don't 
have some goofy Linux distro that doesn't
support desktop icons.)

--doug