WINE how to...

[Beelzebub]

Is it just me, or is configuration of Wine to work on Linux confusing. I have looked on tons of sites, read the installation manual from WineHQ, and I am still confused on how to get this thing to work.

I want to get the Seti client running through wine because some dude in the Seti Forum said it runs faster than the Linux version. Can anyone help me?

I have gotten as far as this (with the help from here )

~/.wine/ <all folders installed>
~/.wine/config

Now I put the setiathome.exe file in the programs directory in /.wine, and type wine setiathome.exe from that directory and I get a ton of fixme:font text in the window.

 

[foshdawg]

shouldn't it be ./wine instead?

 

[Beelzebub]

.wine is the hidden directory in my home directory. That's just the way I have the config setup.

 

[Samurai_Punch]

It sounds like part of your wine configuration when you make it isn't all there, and there are still a few more packages you may need to install... Because it seems as if you installed via rpm instead of compiling it from source.

 

[Samurai_Punch]

I just downloaded the wine package from codeweavers (http://www.codeweavers.com/technology/wine/download.php) its got a nice install interface too... and seems to work rather nicely. Because i know that most of my own problems w/ wine was the configuration w/ the files... this package helped alot.

 

[David]

The codeweavers setup UI is really useful. You can also edit your config files manually if you wish, in /etc/wine.conf I think.

 

[Beelzebub]

I installed the RPM packages from the Mandrake 8.2 CDs. I will give the codeweavers version a shot and let you all know how I fare with it. Thanks guys

 

[Beelzebub]

SWEEEEET! You guys helped me out 99% I got Wine to work and have just one more problem now. How to you pass program commands while using wine???

Example...

I want to use the windows seti client with wine, but for some reason I cannot insert the proxy server into the command line. Here is what I type in the seti virtual directory...

wine seti.exe -proxy 192.168.1.13:5516

Wine doesn't like the proxy command. I can run seti.exe perfectly without the -proxy on it, but I want to run it through my setiqueue cache proxy. Anyone know how to fix this?

 

[Samurai_Punch]

Hey glad to help, funny thing is i found the codeweaver's version of wine through the link you put up

I wouldn't know how to help w/ passing the commands on through wine though... although i don't think you actually need to be in your .wine directory... have you tried running it w/o the .exe extension? that's all i can think think of right now...

/me goes back to copying files from NTFS partitions to FAT32 partition mountable by linux...

 

[Beelzebub]

Tonight is a great night. I got it going

gotta do this...
wine -- seti.exe -command

I am so happy!! Thanks everyone. Now I no longer need windows at all.

 

[David]

Tonight is a great night. I got it going

gotta do this...
wine -- seti.exe -command

I am so happy!! Thanks everyone. Now I no longer need windows at all.

I think
wine "seti.exe -command"
should also work, just stick the whole thing in quotes.

 

[XWRed1]

No, he's right, its `wine something.exe -- -param1 -param2`