[Wine] Re: Clean enviroments in Wine

[bigseb]

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:16 -0600, bigseb wrote:
> 
> > I read somewhere that in order for a program to work properly in Wine it should be installed in a clean enviroment, something along the lines of one software conflicting with anothers drivers/runtime/apps/etc. Is this true? Does this mean that I can only have one program installed with Wine at a time?
> > 
> > Can one not create several 'fresh enviroments'?
> > 
> > 
> Yes, you can create as many environments, known as 'prefixes' as you
> want:
> 
> cd $HOME			
> mkdir .wine_myapp
> export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_myapp"
> # now install and run your application
> 
> After that you might find it worthwhile to use a wrapper script to run
> the app. Here's a howto:
> http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/wine/launcher_script.html
> 
> 
> Martin


Thanks, Martin. I am not very terminal fluent so:
cd $HOME   ----> change to home directory
mkdir .wine_myapp   -----> create a dir in home folder with apps name
export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_myapp"  ----> don't know what this does :(

I'll check out the link, in the meantime what does a wrapper script do?