HELP!!! how do you configure WINE?!?!

[TuffGuy]

i'm using mandrake 8.0. i've installed wine, but i can't find where it was installed to. that, and i can't find the config file.

can anyone help?

 

[danzigrules]

this might help

hope that will help

 

[TuffGuy]

thanks. i was already aware of that thread, and i'm having the same problem he was - i can't find where wine was installed, nor can i find the configuration file.

<-- still needs help

 

[ss59]

locate wine
if that doesn't work, open kpackage and look for wine, if it's not in there, install it again

 

[Poof]

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier but either it was me or the forums were amazingly and suckily slow or unavailable to me most of the day...

WINE is a wierd one and installs itself all over the place.

The wine.conf file should be in the /etc/wine directory. The install also creates a little &quot;dot&quot; directory in the user's /home diectory, ie., /home/youruser/.wine, where other little files will be written as you run apps with it. The actual executables are in /usr/bin, eg., &quot;wine&quot;, &quot;wineserver&quot;, etc.

Since in most cases, the path to /usr/bin is global by default, once you edit your config file and go to run a program, you don't have to change to /usr/bin.... you can change to the program's directory and run it from there.

So for example, in my case when I run SETI, I mount the windoze directory where I have the SETI executable, change to my SETI directory, and then run WINE like this:

wine -- winver nt40 -- seti303.exe <parameters>

where I had changed the win CLI executable name to &quot;seti303.exe&quot;.

Hope this helps a little?

 

[TuffGuy]

thanks Poof. i found the executable in /usr/bin, but there is no /etc/wine or /home/user/.wine. however, i found /usr/lib/wine, /etc/wine.reg, /etc/wine.systemreg and /etc/wine.userreg. do i edit /etc/wine.reg?

edit:
yup, it is /etc/wine.reg. thanks! can i ask you another &quot;important&quot; question? can you recommend a better linux web browser? netscape sucks.

 

[Poof]

Tuffguy - grab the one I posted in that other thread and edit it. Then stick it in /etc/wine.

It's been awhile since I set it up but for my install, there were files in /usr/doc/wine-20011002 where there is html stuff for a web-based help/doc site.

I just scanned a readme and there was a mention of wine.ini. If your wine.ini sortof looks like what's posted in the other thread, then that would be what you would modify and change the extension to &quot;wine.conf&quot;.

EDIT: Saw your &quot;edit&quot;. If wine.reg looks like what's in that other thread, then you're good to go (I know that Mandrake sometimes does stuff differently than Red Hat even though Mandrake IS a Red Hat derivative).

Since you have the latest Mandrake - it should have installed KDE 2.x and Konqueror. That's a good alternative to Nutscrape!

 

[TuffGuy]

cool! got seti running.

but i can't run setispy or setiq.

i have a couple of questions:
1) how can i automate (cronjob?) seti to run when linux boots up, regardless of whether or not somebody is logged in?
2) how can i cache workunits since the computer is on dialup and setiqueue does not work?

thanks.

 

[Sukhoi]

I've never used WINE, but would SETI Driver work?