[Wine]Complete Linux newbie!

[Mark Knecht]

Try

wine --version

just to set things up, and then 

wine notepad 

to start a simple app. If that works, then you need to do an install
of your Windows app. Mount the cdrom, then cd /mnt/cdrom/XXX to
whereever the install program is. (Usually called install.exe or
setup.exe) Then tun

wine install.exe 

and see if it works. In my experience you should look at the wineHQ
App database before you do this and try installing something that's
known to work.

Good luck,
Mark


On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 22:24:44 +0000, Allan Young <allan at desk2web.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, I've finally, after much deliberation, taken the plunge and installed Suse
> 9.1 onto one of my PCs at home - why I never did it sooner I didn't really
> know until I came to "install" Wine; now I'm pretty comfortable with Windows
> and "thought" things would be pretty much the same with Linux - first
> mistake!
> 
> Anyway, I'm hoping that someone will be able to give me some REALLY simple
> instructions in how to get Wins installed - I've downloaded
> wine-20041019-SuSELinux81.i586.rpm and believe that I have installed the
> package correctly through YaST - but what now?  I have genuinely read through
> the readme and have tried to make sense of the HowTo's buts I guess I am just
> one of those slow-to-convert-from-Windows kinda guys!
> 
> Any help would be very greatly appreciated!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Allan
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