[Wine] Winecfg not doing anything

[KGJ]

Hi,

kewldude606 wrote:
> I am using Ubuntu Dapper.
>
> I'm trying to set up wine.  I'm reading all these guides and they say
> to run winecfg in the Terminal and then click on this or that tab.
> Now, when I run winecfg in the terminal, this is the output:
> wine: creating configuration directory '/home/daniel/.wine'... (daniel
> is my username)
> It doesn't go back so that you can type in a new command but I can type
> in random words and stuff.
>
> Also, whenever I run winecfg a new file is created in my home
> directory.  They are named .wine-[a-zA-Z0-9]{6} for example:
> .wine-1hgB6z and .wine-2E5WPF .wine-EfJuW2 .wine-H1sW6j .wine-HhCFR2
> .wine-K6KfeR .wine-nBvrdn .wine-pN5XFv (those are the actual folders
> out of my home dir).
>
> At first I thought this was a problem with my wine install, so I
> uninstalled it and then reinstalled from the repositories (I followed
> the directions on winehq and added wine's repository).  That still
> didn't work so I build from source (still using apt-get) and it still
> didn't work.
>
> Please help me!  I really want to run uTorrent.
>
> Also, I tried to run "wine <*.exe>" and  the same thing happens.
>   
On my debian sid I got a similar problem. wine (when run the first time)
AFAIK calls wineprefixcreate. I got an error during this. At first I
thought it was a bug in my way compiling it. I solved this by running
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wineprefixcreate
During the first run it sometimes ends for me with an unhandled page
fault, but the second ever finished successfully and the wine
configuration was usable afterwards.


Greetings KGJ