On 16 Oct 2003 23:42:52 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > So its try wine, the version I have is wine-20030115-4mdk, but I cant > find the config file. > Looks like it did'nt install. > Where is the normal place for wine.conf in MDK ? and should it have > installed the conf file when the rpm was loaded ?. > Also any hints on getting wine properly configured would be very > helpful.
To begin with, you need a later release of wine. The official wine rpms for mandrake linux are on sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 All binaries are tested before release. It is critical to remove your previous release of wine before installing a new one -- that's "rpm -e wine", I believe, or use mcc to remove the wine package. Be sure to install winesetuptk as well as wine. Once installed, winesetuptk doesn't have to be uninstalled when installing later wine releases (which come out about once a month because wine is still alpha software). After your new wine is installed, run "winesetuptk" from the command line. It will then take you through the steps of setting up and configuring wine for your particular windows setup. That is, it will give you the choice of using a real windows partition if you have one, or set up a fake_windows if you don't have windows installed on your system somewhere. If you have windows but it's formatted NTFS, you should set up a fake_windows and not use the real windows partition. Windows apps need to be able to write on their partitions and writing to an NTFS formatted partition from Linux is still experimental, and therefore risky. In any event, your wine stuff should all end up in $HOME/.wine -- the configuration file is $HOME/.wine/config and you should also find three windows registry files in there as well -- user.reg, userdef.reg, and system.reg. If you don't find them, run "regedit winedefault.reg" from the command line to install a windows registry for wine's use. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see the WordStar Users Group http://www.wordstar2.com/cbabbage/wordstar
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