[Wine]regedit not working

[Stefan Munz]

Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2004 21:48 schrieb Scott F. Kiesling:
> I tried all of the suggestions. Upgrading gives the same error. Changing
> the LD_LIBRARY_PATH helps, but now it just tells me 'winedefaults.reg'
> is not found. It appears I don't have a'winedefault.reg'.
> Anywhere. I sort of thought running regedit would create. How do I get it?

I don't have a winedefaults.reg too (wineversion 20040716). But I think this 
is some kind of path issue in your wine config. can you post some more infos 
(i.e. wine version, shell output of wine when starting regedit)?

>
> BTW, the distro is Gentoo and I'm using a Gentoo package (ebuild).
>
> SFK
>
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 at 5:21pm, the following was brought forth by Stefan 
Munz:
> > Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2004 18:27 schrieb Scott F. Kiesling:
> > > I just starting using wine; I mostly need it to run Excel, which is
> > > what I run when I get this warning:
> > >
> > > ERROR: You need to merge the 'winedefault.reg' file into your
> > >        Wine registry by running: `regedit winedefault.reg'
> > >
> > > Excel starts and seems to run OK, apart from not being able to save,
> > > which is another problem for another post.
> > >
> > > OK, so I do as I am told, and then get the following error:
> > >
> > > /usr/lib/wine/bin/wine: error while loading shared libraries:
> > > libwine.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > >
> > > I have libwine.so.1; do I need to change its permissions or something?
> >
> > as far as I know you get this error if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set
> > correctly. try running wine with:
> >
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/whereYouInstalledWINE/lib wine regedit
> >
> > then it should work. but I'm confused, that wine can start excel when you
> > get the above error running regedit :-?
> >
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