[Wine] Beginner's Guide to Wine? (mac user)

Gert van den Berg wine-users at mohag.net
Thu Jun 25 13:24:31 CDT 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 20:18, DaVince<wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> You can find the terminal inside your Gnome menu. Open it. From here, you really only need to know two commands in order to be able to run any Wine application:
>
Finder > Utilities (or something like that) in OS X

> cd directoryname
> wine appname.exe
>
> For everything else you'll need a basic understanding of how things work in Linux, for example:
> - Mounted disks/CDs/USB drives can be found in /media/
/Volumes in OS X IIRC
> - Your "My Documents" directory = /home/your-username/ in Linux.
/Users/username in OS X
> - Wine makes its own whole "installation" to install and run applications in, this can be found in /home/username/.wine/
> - The short version for /home/username/ is ~/
$HOME is more portable



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