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

chefsansvarig at gmail.com chefsansvarig at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 00:49:44 CDT 2007


Hi.
Is there anyway of registering the .exe extension into Gnome/KDE?

Now you are forced to run it from the command line which is a bit extra
time consuming!

chefsansvarig at gmail.com wrote:
> 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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