[Wine] Re: Wine stopped after winetricks dcom98

[Ditzian]

Gert van den Berg wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 16:38, Ditzian <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> 
> > I am using Wine under PCLinuxOS. Â I installed a program, Logger32, that ran under Wine, but which did not display dates correctly. Â I asked about this and was told to install winetricks and then to run dcom98, which I did. Â Now, it seems that none of my Windows programs runs. Â They show an hourglass in the system tray, then disappear. Â I tried reloading Wine to no avail, and then read that this seldom works.
> > 
> > Is there a way for me to get Wine sorking again?
> > 
> > 
> You can delete or rename ~/.wine but that will get rid of everything
> installed in Wine.
> 
> You might be able to disable the override (AFAIK a environment varable
> might be used so you can get into Winecfg) (Not sure which variable
> and its value...)
> 
> 
> > My skills at the LInux command line are meager, but I can follow simple instructions. Â PCLinuxOS is very GUI-oriented.
> > 
> > Jan
> 

Is deleting ~/.wine a sure way to fix things?  I am able to reload the programs.  One of them has an address database; I believe I backed it up, but I can dig into ~wine for it and save it separately.

Jan


Jan