[Wine]regedit not working

Stefan Munz stefan.munz at itomig.de
Fri Jul 30 10:21:46 CDT 2004


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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