[Wine] Try wineprefixcreate to repair old .wine instead of deleting

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 16:00:15 CDT 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  If ~/.wine doesn't exists when you run an app for the first time, the
>  >  prefix is automatically created. I.e.,
>  >  $ rm -rf ~/.wine
>  >  $ wine notepad
>
>  This is on the WineHQ Wine HowTo page where? Clearly I've never done
>  it this way so you now have one convert.

It's alluded to in the FAQ, but should be made more clear. Someone
with a flair with words/instructions care to update the FAQ?

>  How is this different than
>
>  rm -rf .wine
>  winecfg

The only difference would be that you launch winecfg, whereas I
launched notepad ;-)



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