How can I install & configure WINE under FC3?

[Samuel Díaz García]

I was installed WINE, but I don't know how I can configure to install 
windows applications and run them after.

Any help? Any interesting links?

Had anybody used wine to install and play StarCraft?

I had reading about a wine "clone", but I want use wine.

Thanks

[Richard S. Crawford]

Samuel Díaz García said:
> I was installed WINE, but I don't know how I can configure to install
> windows applications and run them after.
>
> Any help? Any interesting links?
>
> Had anybody used wine to install and play StarCraft?
>
> I had reading about a wine "clone", but I want use wine.

I was able to download and install the latest Wine build from the Wine
website, http://www.winehq.com/site/download-rh.  There is a Fedora Core 3
build on that page.  Download the rpm and install it with rpm -ivh.

I've only installed a couple of programs under Wine.  I downloaded the
.exe install executables (or inserted the Windows CD), cd'ed to the
directory where the install file was, and entered:

$ wine ./install.exe

(or whatever the install file is called.)

The first time you run it, I believe, it creates the drive_c directory
under ~/.wine where future programs will be installed.  When I run Remote
Admin Viewer on my FC3 box to view a Windows desktop at work, I run:

$ wine /home/richard/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Radmin/radmin.exe

This is all just stuff I figured out on my own, so I probably have gotten
something wrong somewhere.  radmin.exe is the only program I've managed to
get working under Wine so far; I haven't tried running any games.

Hope that helps.

[Johannes Findeisen]

Hello,

i have installed it 2 days ago using apt. If you're using apt do:

# apt-get install wine

After that go to: http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ and download 
the rpm file for Winetools and instll it with:

# rpm -Uhv winetools.bla.bla...

Be sure xdialog is installed on your system. If not install it with apt:

# apt-get install xdialog

After that you could configure Wine using Winetools by running the folowing 
command:

# /usr/local/winetools/wt210jo

Make your configuration there and you're ready to go. I have installed 
Internet Explorer and Winamp without big problems. Only Click and go if 
you're using Winetools.

If you have more questions go on. I'm installing the same on a friends PC 
right now...

Regards

Johannes

On Thursday 03 February 2005 00:01, Samuel Díaz García wrote:
> I was installed WINE, but I don't know how I can configure to install
> windows applications and run them after.
>
> Any help? Any interesting links?
>
> Had anybody used wine to install and play StarCraft?
>
> I had reading about a wine "clone", but I want use wine.
>
> Thanks
>
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[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Samuel Díaz García wrote:
> I was installed WINE, but I don't know how I can configure to install 
> windows applications and run them after.
>
> Any help? Any interesting links?
>
> Had anybody used wine to install and play StarCraft?
>
> I had reading about a wine "clone", but I want use wine.
>
> Thanks

Yes, you can play StarCraft on Wine (BEST Sci-Fi RTS ever, IMO!!)... I 
usually configure wine manually from ~/.wine/config, however as the 
other two posters have already pointed out, there may be easeir ways to 
set it up.

[Duncan Lithgow]

Johannes, thanks for those links - looks like good tools. Can't get it to work 
though.

Winetools reports that I have succesfully installed IE 6.0 Full (which is what 
I want) but i can't work out how to get it to run.

when i type
# wine iexplore
or
# wine iexplore.exe
it just says
wine: cannot find 'iexplore.exe' or whatever

What am i doing wrong. I can run iesetup
# wine ie6setup
that works as expected. hmm

suggestions? - Duncan

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:56:46PM +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Johannes, thanks for those links - looks like good tools. Can't get it to work 
> though.
>
> Winetools reports that I have succesfully installed IE 6.0 Full (which is what 
> I want) but i can't work out how to get it to run.
>
> when i type
> # wine iexplore
> or
> # wine iexplore.exe
> it just says
> wine: cannot find 'iexplore.exe' or whatever

You should remember that you are on Linux and Linux is case
sensitive. So try

# wine IEXPLORE.EXE

Also, it may not be in your path, so you may have to give a fully
qualified windowsified path:

# wine "c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE" &

To find out where something is in your wine tree, try:

find .wine -iname "*.exe" | less

or variations on that. For more information, "info find".

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:24:59AM +0100, Johannes Findeisen wrote:
> Hello,
> After that go to: http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ and download 
> the rpm file for Winetools and instll it with:
>
> # rpm -Uhv winetools.bla.bla...
>
> Be sure xdialog is installed on your system. If not install it with apt:
>
> # apt-get install xdialog
>
> After that you could configure Wine using Winetools by running the folowing 
> command:
>
> # /usr/local/winetools/wt210jo

Make sure you do all of the middle three steps in the first stanza in
the Winetools menu.
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 00:01, Samuel Díaz García wrote:
> > I was installed WINE, but I don't know how I can configure to install
> > windows applications and run them after.
> >
> > Any help? Any interesting links?
> >
> > Had anybody used wine to install and play StarCraft?
> >
> > I had reading about a wine "clone", but I want use wine.

Also, join the wine users list, where you can get a lot of questions
like this answered.

[Duncan Lithgow]

> # wine IEXPLORE.EXE
>
> Also, it may not be in your path, so you may have to give a fully
> qualified windowsified path:
>
> # wine "c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE" &
>
> To find out where something is in your wine tree, try:
>
> find .wine -iname "*.exe" | less
>
> or variations on that. For more information, "info find".

Fantastic!!! Now it works - I had a feeling it was just me being silly. Next 
step: how do i add it to my 'path'?

That's really great - if i can get it working with java then we can get into 
our internet banking. That's the last thing we're using windows for (other 
than ArchiCad)

choice - Duncan

[Jeff Vian]

On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 17:18 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > # wine IEXPLORE.EXE
> >
> > Also, it may not be in your path, so you may have to give a fully
> > qualified windowsified path:
> >
> > # wine "c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE" &
> >
> > To find out where something is in your wine tree, try:
> >
> > find .wine -iname "*.exe" | less
> >
> > or variations on that. For more information, "info find".
>
> Fantastic!!! Now it works - I had a feeling it was just me being silly. Next 
> step: how do i add it to my 'path'?
>
> That's really great - if i can get it working with java then we can get into 
> our internet banking. That's the last thing we're using windows for (other 
> than ArchiCad)
>
> choice - Duncan

Uh...   You trust IE and internet banking?  ROFLMAO
Why do you do that?
What about the BHOs and other such that are an IE weakness and not just
the OS weakness?

I have been harping on my bank because their home page displays
different on Firefox on Linux, than it does on Firefox on Windows.

I told them that if they cannot support my OS and Browser of choice,
that I have used fur many years, I will change banks.

It has stirred them to action (at least I have gotten several email
replies) and we will soon see if they fix it.

[Charles Curley]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:18:33PM +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > # wine IEXPLORE.EXE
> >
> > Also, it may not be in your path, so you may have to give a fully
> > qualified windowsified path:
> >
> > # wine "c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE" &
> >
> > To find out where something is in your wine tree, try:
> >
> > find .wine -iname "*.exe" | less

That should have been:

find ~/.wine -iname "*.exe" | less
     ^^

This version will work even when you aren't in your home
directory. See: "info bash" on tilde expansion for the gory details.
> > or variations on that. For more information, "info find".
>
> Fantastic!!! Now it works - I had a feeling it was just me being silly. Next 
> step: how do i add it to my 'path'?

You don't, since it requires wine. Instead, create an alias. Something
like:

alias IE="wine 'c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE'"

Now you can run Internet Exploder by entering "IE" at the command
line.

If you don't want to look at all the debug output in your term,

alias IE="wine 'c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE' 2> /dev/null"

Again, "info bash" for the gory details. I'll also let you read the
info pages for BASH to figure out how to make an alias permanent.

A lot of what I've just done is mid to entry level shell stuff. See
the several good documents on BASH at the Linux Documentation Project
for more information there.
> That's really great - if i can get it working with java then we can get into 
> our internet banking. That's the last thing we're using windows for (other 
> than ArchiCad)

Can't help you there. Try the Wine web site or users' list (in that
order). I suspect someone there will know how to do it.
> choice - Duncan
>
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[Robin Laing]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 17:18 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>
> Uh...   You trust IE and internet banking?  ROFLMAO
> Why do you do that?
> What about the BHOs and other such that are an IE weakness and not just
> the OS weakness?
>
> I have been harping on my bank because their home page displays
> different on Firefox on Linux, than it does on Firefox on Windows.
>
> I told them that if they cannot support my OS and Browser of choice,
> that I have used fur many years, I will change banks.
>
> It has stirred them to action (at least I have gotten several email
> replies) and we will soon see if they fix it.

Our band stated that they supported Firefox but not Mozilla when I 
tried using it.  I had one problem and it was a Java error and tabs 
that occurred even in Firefox.  Reported the problem with the Java 
errors.  Last time I checked, it worked in Mozilla.

Before anyone asks, I like Mozilla's integration. :)

[James Wilkinson]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> Fantastic!!! Now it works - I had a feeling it was just me being silly. Next 
> step: how do i add it to my 'path'?

Charles Curley wrote:
> You don't, since it requires wine. Instead, create an alias. Something
> like:
>
> alias IE="wine 'c:/Program Files/Internet Explorer/IEXPLORE.EXE'"
>
> Now you can run Internet Exploder by entering "IE" at the command
> line.

Note that it *is* allegedly possible to get the kernel to recognise that
this file is a Windows executable and pass it over to Wine to run. This
uses the binfmt_misc module, which is in all the FC3 kernels that I
currently have installed.

This seems a good starting point:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/marcelo/linux-2.4/Documentatio...

(I don't think anything has changed here for 2.6).

James.

[Matt Florido]

On Wed, February 2, 2005 3:24 pm, Johannes Findeisen said:
> Hello,
>
> i have installed it 2 days ago using apt. If you're using apt do:
>
> # apt-get install wine

What repository are you using that contains the Wine package?
> # rpm -Uhv winetools.bla.bla...
>
> Be sure xdialog is installed on your system. If not install it with apt:
>
> # apt-get install xdialog

What is the purpose of xdialog?

Sorry for reprising an old post, but I found this in the recent archives.

Thanks!

[Duncan Lithgow]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:50 -0800, Matt Florido wrote:
> What is the purpose of xdialog?

supplies the files/libraries used for giving you dialogue boxes...

I haven't read the rest of the thread, but have you tried winetools ?

Duncan

[Matt Florido]

On Wed, March 16, 2005 10:14 pm, Duncan Lithgow said:
> On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:50 -0800, Matt Florido wrote:
> > What is the purpose of xdialog?
>
> supplies the files/libraries used for giving you dialogue boxes...
>
> I haven't read the rest of the thread, but have you tried winetools ?
>
> Duncan

I have not installed Wine.  I'm just doing preliminary reading before I do
so.  Where is xdialog available for download  I don't see this in the
repositories either.