On Monday 08 December 2003 02:01 pm, Melissa Reese wrote: > Hi, > > Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like > to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for > setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The > tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that I'm already > comfortable with the idea of manually creating/editing configuration > files in Linux...which I'm not.
Well, Mandrake comes with a wine RPM, you should just need to use the Install Software link, find wine and install it. Once you do, it should install a daemon called wineserver that should automatically pick up any .exe file that you run. You may need to edit your wine config file to actually point to your CD drive among other things, but since those settings are dependent on your system, I am not sure that there is such a thing as an easy howto to tell you how to do it. I can help you get the config setup by asking for pertinent info and sending you a copy of the proper settings to use. If you just want a sample, I can send you a copy of mine offlist, just so that you can go through and see what the settings look like but installing the RPM should get you pretty close to where you need to be. Other options would be to buy Crossover Office or WineX since both include installation routines and have built in installers for applications. > So...are there any good "Wine for *Complete Dummies*" tutorials out > there you could recommend? Thanks! My personal recommendation would be to just install the RPM and see where you are at and move on from there. You might be surprised at how quickly you can get it going by just installing the RPM and making a few minor changes to the /home/user/.wine/config file. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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