[Wine] Re: where is all installed programs located?

[chefsansvarig at gmail.com]

i did find it after searching a bit.i am now running winamp just fine.
Thank you very much for all the help!

Segin wrote:
> chefsansvarig at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Second,yes,i do actually know how to run it but i cant find a proper
> > search path which leads to the windows binary.
> > i dont have a .wine directory.
>
> I will demonstrate with my shell-fu what to do.
>
> From your command shell, you probably have a prompt like this:
>
> [ segin at segin:~ ]$
>
> Now, when you run 'ls' in your home directory (represented by the shell
> magic charater '~'), none of the files whose names start with a dot are
> shown. `.wine' is essentially a hidden folder. You can't see it in the
> GUI or a standard 'ls' output.
>
> Try this:
>
> ls -ld ~/.wine
>
> You should see something like this:
>
> drwxr-xr-x  4 segin root 184 Oct 21 00:10 /home/segin/.wine
>
> Note that using ~ in the shell is like typing out your full HOME
> directory path in just one letter.
>
> Now, `cd' into the .wine directory, and the virtual drive C: like so:
>
> cd ~/.wine/drive_c/
>
> Now, run `ls' again:
>
> [ segin at segin:~/.wine/drive_c ]$ ls -l
> total 2
> drwxr-xr-x   2 segin root 240 Sep 16 00:27 Office10
> drwxr-xr-x  26 segin root 824 Oct 21 00:08 Program Files
> drwxr-xr-x   9 segin root 528 Oct  1 17:06 sysreset
> drwxr-xr-x   2 segin root 416 Oct  4 19:15 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  11 segin root 688 Oct 16 06:23 windows
> [ segin at segin:~/.wine/drive_c ]$
>
> Now, look at the `Program Files' folder. there's a space in the name,
> which really confuses the shell, but there's away around that.
>
> Escape the space.
>
> Now, you may be looking at this thinking "escape the what?", and I know,
> I thought the same thing wen I first learned how to use the GNU Bourne
> Again Shell (GNU bash). It's simple. You put an escape charater `\'
> before the space, like so:
>
> cd Program\ files/
>
> (note that file names are CaSe SeNsItIvE, that is, you can have a file
> STARTREK, StarTrek, and starttrek, and they would all be seperate files.)
>
> When you find the Winamp directory, just run this:
>
> wine winamp
>
> (Wine can automatically guess the .exe extension if not specified, and
> searches for the executable case-insensitively. That means that if you
> have a file `WINAMP.EXE', `winamp' will match it. Just be careful you
> don't have a matching file in `c:\\windows\\system32' or so.)
>
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