[Wine] Problem running applications - Newbie

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 06 March 2006 17:04, Matías Gutiérrez Reto wrote:
> I'm new to wine and I'm running wine version 0.9.2 on Fedora Core 1
> and I have the following problem:
>
> I install any windows application from its installer (setup.exe or
> similar). Once installed, in order to run it I need to go to the directory
> where the aplication is installed, for example
>
> cd /root/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files\MiniReminder
>
> And then run the application, for example:
>
> wine "MiniReminder.exe"
>
> The problem is that when I try to run any application from outside of its
> directory it doesn't work. Or if I make a shortcut from winecfg to the
> application exe file the same thing occurs. The applications seems not
> to detect where ini or cfg are installed.
>
> Does anybody have any idea?
>
> Does anybody knows any wine tutorial oriented to newbies?
>
> Thanks in advance, regards,
> Matías

Hi Matias. In addition to what Anand said about running as root. I wonder if 
you made the same error as I made post install of Wine. I was still at root, 
and ran wincfg, which put the .wine directory in /root. Thinking back, I 
think I just deleted the .wine directory in /root, then ran again, but as 
user, winecfg. This will then put the .wine directory 
in /home/<username>/.wine , where it belongs.

If your not sure how to remove it from /root . Either use KDE's superuser 
filemanager, or on the CLI.
rm -f -r /root/.wine      
-f is force (when it's gone, it's really gone)  -r is recursive and removes 
directories (not needed if just removing files)

All the best. Nigel.
>
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