[Wine] Re: Wine not working at all... Urgent

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smartflower2002 wrote:
> hey guys, 
> i am  a newbie at linux, 
> i have installed fedora 12, updated most of the stuff of it.. (expect policies)
> and i install wine using yum..
> it installed wine, installed its dependeces..
> 
> but now when  i open any exe setup using wine. nothing happens,. nothing at all.... 
> call i can see is the glass of wine jumping besides the mouse curson..
> 
> and when i try to install a software using "install" option in "wine software uninstaller"
> i get a error message..
> 
> but the strange thing is. the error messege is filled with "BOX'es"
> 
> 4 small boxes nothing else.... no text nothing...
> 
> so i unlocked the root, logged in using root. and tried to install software from it.. same problem.. can anyone please plaese help me... coz i really neeed to get it working..
> 
> PS:- all suggestions are accepted, coz im learning linux, and i am ready to screw it for learning......
> 
> (install wine from yum using SU)


First, make sure you haven't installed 64 bit Wine, as it's not ready for use. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=533806

Second, now that you've run Wine as root, you need to fix your permissions errors. 
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-96bebfa287b4288974de0df23351f278b0d41014

Once you've done that, if it still doesn't work, run Wine from a terminal and post whatever messages appear.