Wine

[The Liquidator]

Hi

I am having a problem running (or rather launching) a Windows app running Wine.

I dual boot with Win XP. Running Kubuntu Dapper Flight 7. Partitions:

20Gb NTFS
10 Gb Fat 32 to enable access from Win and Lin
20 Gb Reiser FS.

The windows application (Quicken 2002) has been installed from within XP to the Fat 32 partition. In my previos OS (MDV 2006) things worked as expected. With Dapper, I can run it if I navigate to the executable, right click on it and select "Open with .. Wine". However, if I set up a desktop link to the executable (link to URL) or set up a "link to application" it will not launch.

I have seen a clue. When in winecfg I see an error message about being unable to add /home/ian/desktop to the windows profile. Also, if I try to change permissions for the desktop I get an error message saying I can't do that.

Are these 2 connected? Anyone any ideas as to how I get round it?

Thanks

Ian

[Peetke]

Re: Wine

You can first try to update wine to the latest version,
simply add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main

instructions:
http://www.winehq.com/site/download-deb

[The Liquidator]

Re: Wine

Thanks but winehq is already on my database. I'm running 0.9.12.

This is really weird. I have never witnessed this before.

[The Liquidator]

Re: Wine

For info, the problem was solved by my firms IT guy.

He set up a link to application with the command wine "path to executable" and it worked straight away! I hadn't put in the quotation marks although I had never needed to do before.

Ian

[RevNomad]

Re: Wine


Please post simple step by step instructions. I used Wine in the previous incarnation of Kubuntu to run an essental program. Since updating to Dapper Wine will not run the program. I'm a novice so I have no clue why.

Thanks for the help.

Norman

[The Liquidator]

Re: Wine

Dual Boot assumed. Run winecfg from the command line. As a bare minimum you must configure the c drove so as to be the partition on which Windows is housed. (If not dual boot I think the c drive will be the wine directory but I'm not sure). On mine it's /media/sda2/.

Then navigate to the executable file. Click (or double-click on it). It should run. If not right click and select "open with" and type in wine. It should run. If not, there is a config problem. I note you have upgraded. In that case uninstall wine and then remove the wine directory in home. Reinstall wine and then re-run winecfg as above. The above tests should then work.

Assuning they do, on the desktop, select new/link to application. Right click on the link and select properties. Then select application tab. In command type wine "name and address of file.exe" and in work path enter the directory. Hence for my quicken, command is wine '/media/sda6/Data/qwickenw/qw.exe' and work path is /media/sda6/Data/qwickenw/

Good luck

Hope this helps

Ian

[RevNomad]

Re: Wine

Thanks, I hope it works also.

I don't dual boot, but I found wine's "C" drive.

I'll try these instructions and let you know.


Norman