Problem after "export WINEPREFIX="~/.wineSSE_28_2023"

[B. Dietrich]

Hi, big problem, because i am not a real linuxer.
I wanted to install german "SteuerSparErklärung", and before I carried out this tip:

export WINEPREFIX="~/.wineSSE_28_2023"

Then, nothing ran anymore. Always such reports as

~$ winecfg
wine: invalid directory ~/.wineSSE_28_2023

or

~$ winetricks -f vcrun2019 crypt32
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warning: Your version of wine is no longer supported upstream. You should upgrade to 5.x
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Executing mkdir -p ~
ls: Zugriff auf '~/.wineSSE_28_2023/drive_c' nicht möglich: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
grep: ~/.wineSSE_28_2023/*.reg: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
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WINEPREFIX INFO:
Drive C:

Registry info:
~/.wineSSE_28_2023/*.reg:
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warning: wine cmd.exe /c echo '%AppData%' returned empty string, error message "wine: invalid directory ~/.wineSSE_28_2023 in WINEPREFIX: not an absolute path"

I erased Wine, and installed again. But same thing.
I looked for a folder called .wineSSE_28_2023 - but I could not find a folder like this. Only .wine
I feel rather helpless

[jkfloris]

If you put the ~ in quotes, it will not be changed to your home directory:

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$ echo ~/.test
/home/floris/.test
$ echo "~/.test"
~/.test

# if you need quotes, use ${HOME}
echo "${HOME}/.test"
/home/floris/.test

This means that the wineprefix is now pointing to a path that does not exist.
Try:

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export WINEPREFIX=~/.wineSSE_28_2023
# or
export WINEPREFIX="${HOME}/.wineSSE_28_2023"

[B. Dietrich]

Thanks, but I am an old biologist, not a programmer.
You think that i should not have written the quotes ("...")?
That correspondents to an empty Folder with the name ~. Only this wavesign and nothing more. I erased this empty folder, without any positive result.

But how i can solve the problem?
There must be an entry ".wineSSE_28_2023" somewhere in the wineworld of my pc, but I can't find it and delete it.
The other question is, if next time I should try again to make an other prefix, or export something, or simply let the basic setting like it is (Prefix .wine).

[B. Dietrich]

Actualiziation: Like you proposed I did

export WINEPREFIX=~/.wineSSE_28_2023

and the wine-prefix-problem seems to be solved! Thanks!