can't connect to wine server

richag77 · Post by **richag77** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:01 am

This is my first try using wine and I havent been able to get it to work. I've read the FAQ and that doesn't seem to cover the problem.

I typed "wine appname.exe"
and got the message "could not exec wineserver"
Where from here?

FrÃ©dÃ©ric Delanoy · Fri Aug 20, 2010 7:51 am

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:01, richag77 <[email protected]> wrote:

This is my first try using wine and I havent been able to get it to work. I've read the FAQ and that doesn't seem to cover the problem.

I typed "wine appname.exe"
and got the message Â "could not exec Â wineserver"
Where from here?

Did you compile wine yourself?
If you, you might want to reinstall it using you favourite package manager.

richag77 · Post by **richag77** » Sun Aug 22, 2010 4:56 am

Thanks for the reply Fradaric, I used the "add and remove programs" part of Fedora 13. After Wine was installed, I expected a GUI but there was only the commandline interface; that's OK as long as I can get it working.
I am very interested in getting this working as then I can stop using Windows and do just about all of my work on linux. Do you think that it's a good idea to uninstall wine and re-install, this time using "yum" on the commandline? Bye

Post by **DanKegel** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:49 am

Dunno. Maybe you should ask in a Fedora forum, since the
problem seems to be with the Fedora wine package. Or maybe
your system is mangled somehow.

What does
ls -l /usr/bin/wineserver
say?

richag77 · Post by **richag77** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:08 am

I've removed that Installation of wine and re-installed using "yum install wine" and the installation went quite differently. It may work this time; I'll spend the next couple of days trying it out.

I entered the following:
[gary@localhost ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/wineserver
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 404132 Jul 30 16:49 /usr/bin/wineserver

Thanks Bye