Finding Wine after install
david
nux at blueyonder.co.uk
Sun Feb 13 09:21:48 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 08:50, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 21:19 +1300, Lindsay wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > Have you tried typing wine from a terminal window?
> > >
> > > "man wine" will give you some help on the syntax/method of use.
> > >
> > > Sean
> > >
> > Did that Sean, but cant say I learned anything. It was about what Wine
> > does, but not how to find and execute the program
> > Linz
> >
> Have you tried Applications-> Run Application and then try to run wine
> with whatever other file you want?
>
> Norman
>
Or better still, on the command line
wine /path/to/your-program
That way, you get to see any error messages that may appear.
Sometimes wine takes a lot of fiddling, it's not in any way a guaranteed
to work Windows emulator.
David
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