Wine install issue?

lucky07 · Post by **lucky07** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:51 am

Alright so I'm completely new to Linux so bear with me.

I installed WINE as described on the site. I add the source, it downloads etc... install and the only thing I get under my applications menu is a WINE notepad.

Now from what I read in the user guide trying to figure out how to make this work I should have a WINE File somewhere in there. No such thing for some reason. Did I miss a step? What did I do wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated ... please don't send me back to the hellhole by the name of windows.

Latest version of Ubuntu. (9.10) Karmic Koala according to the system info.
Apparently the version of WINE I installed (attempting to anyways) is the right one for this OS.

That's pretty much all I can say as I just installed Ubuntu last night and have about 4 hours experience on it.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 10:57 am

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:51 AM, lucky07 <[email protected]> wrote:

Alright so I'm completely new to Linux so bear with me.

I installed WINE as described on the site. I add the source, it downloads etc... install and the only thing I get under my applications menu is a WINE notepad.

Sounds like every thing is fine to me.

Now from what I read in the user guide trying to figure out how to make this work I should have a WINE File somewhere in there. No such thing for some reason. Did I miss a step? What did I do wrong.

That is something ubuntu adds if you use their package but that is not
part of wine. I do not have this under gentoo.

John

lucky07 · Post by **lucky07** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:30 am

Alright so now I figured out how to get in there but I don't really need it I guess.

Everything seems to be alright to a certain extent. The Run With WINE Loader.... icons are on the .exe files .. but they won't open. She thinks for a bit after I click to run it then just stops. Now this may not be a WINE issue I dunno. No error messages nothing, just stops.

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 11:34 am

Alright so now I figured out how to get in there but I don't really need it I guess.

Everything seems to be alright to a certain extent. The Run With WINE Loader.... icons are on the .exe files .. but they won't open. She thinks for a bit after I click to run it then just stops. Now this may not be a WINE issue I dunno. No error messages nothing, just stops.

Stop clicking on icons and start here for troubleshooting:
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-13df66c ... 1479c880f5

John