Beginner's Guide to Wine? (mac user)

[ozarzus]

I am absolutely new to wine, and as such, am fairly clueless as to how to maneuver wine in terminal--or even maneuver in terminal, at all. I am interested in learning. The funny thing is: all the threads in the "Absolute Beginners" section of the forum is generally pretty far beyond my comprehension. So, I'm wondering if someone could refer me to a introductory guide to using script in unix-like systems and, specifically, wine. Thanks.

[austin987]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:05 PM, ozarzus<[email protected]> wrote:

I am absolutely new to wine, and as such, am fairly clueless as to how to maneuver wine in terminal--or even maneuver in terminal, at all. I am interested in learning. The funny thing is: all the threads in the "Absolute Beginners" section of the forum is generally pretty far beyond my comprehension. So, I'm wondering if someone could refer me to a introductory guide to using script in unix-like systems and, specifically, wine. Thanks.

Don't know of any for wine, specifically, but try:
http://www.hacktheday.com/beginners-gui ... al-part-1/
http://www.macinstruct.com/node/47

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-Austin

[DaVince]

You can find the terminal inside your Gnome menu. Open it. From here, you really only need to know two commands in order to be able to run any Wine application:

cd directoryname
wine appname.exe

For everything else you'll need a basic understanding of how things work in Linux, for example:
- Mounted disks/CDs/USB drives can be found in /media/
- Your "My Documents" directory = /home/your-username/ in Linux.
- Wine makes its own whole "installation" to install and run applications in, this can be found in /home/username/.wine/
- The short version for /home/username/ is ~/

For all other important information on using the Linux shell/terminal, I suggest you use Google, and maybe www.ubuntuforums.org.

[Gert van den Berg]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 20:18, DaVince<[email protected]> wrote:

You can find the terminal inside your Gnome menu. Open it. From here, you really only need to know two commands in order to be able to run any Wine application:

Finder > Utilities (or something like that) in OS X

cd directoryname
wine appname.exe

For everything else you'll need a basic understanding of how things work in Linux, for example:
- Mounted disks/CDs/USB drives can be found in /media/

/Volumes in OS X IIRC

- Your "My Documents" directory = /home/your-username/ in Linux.

/Users/username in OS X

- Wine makes its own whole "installation" to install and run applications in, this can be found in /home/username/.wine/
- The short version for /home/username/ is ~/

$HOME is more portable

[austin987]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:18 PM, DaVince<[email protected]> wrote:

You can find the terminal inside your Gnome menu. Open it. From here, you really only need to know two commands in order to be able to run any Wine application:

A) Not everyone uses Gnome.
B) This is a mac, so definitely no Gnome.

cd directoryname
wine appname.exe

For everything else you'll need a basic understanding of how things work in Linux, for example:
- Mounted disks/CDs/USB drives can be found in /media/
- Your "My Documents" directory = /home/your-username/ in Linux.
- Wine makes its own whole "installation" to install and run applications in, this can be found in /home/username/.wine/
- The short version for /home/username/ is ~/

For all other important information on using the Linux shell/terminal, I suggest you use Google, and maybe www.ubuntuforums.org.

Mac OS X != GNU/Linux

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-Austin

[ozarzus]

hey... thanks a lot for all the prompt replies. i will definitely look into the beginners' guides suggested in the replies. shortly after posting the thread, i came upon this crossover application, which seems to integrate the wine app into a pretty user-friendly interface. even though i only have the trial for thirty days, that should serve to sate my need for a quest for glory V fix. but i'll definitely look into all the suggested material, because all this GNU-Linux stuff really interests me...

thanks again.

[DaVince]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:18 PM, DaVince<[email protected]> wrote:

You can find the terminal inside your Gnome menu. Open it. From here, you really only need to know two commands in order to be able to run any Wine application:

A) Not everyone uses Gnome.
B) This is a mac, so definitely no Gnome.

Oh woops, I completely overlooked the title. Sorry!

About A), it's okay to make the assumption anyway under most Linux stuff - most WMs have FreeDesktop-compliant menus anyway.

[gdwarner]

Oz --

This probably won't help you much with Unix, but I whipped up an article on using Darwine (now just Wine) on the Mac a few weeks back. You can read it here:

http://www.cheapandsleazy.net/darwine.html

There's a link in the article to an older build of Darwine, which has been superseded by something called WineBottler.

So, just use the older build for a few minutes -- long enough to install an app or two -- then delete the Darwine folder, and download the new WineBottler ... which the afore-mentioned article doesn't cover -- yet -- but you can find the basics of how to use it on the main page of my (cheap and sleazy) website; just search for the word "rebirth" and you'll find them.

As for learning to use the terminal, O'Reilly published a book entitled "Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger a few years back (2005-ish). You should be able to pick up a used copy on Amazon fairly cheaply.

Finally, once you have had a chance to look through the book, if you can, it couldn't hurt to take a class at your local community college; you can then apply the knowledge you gained from both the school's text and the O'Reilly book! Win-win!

Good luck ....

--gdw

[dawntomorn]

Thanks fort his psot, I'm actually learning myself since this is pretty new to me. I've still got a long way to go.
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