Needs info about wine installation

[dctalk37]

I was wondering about the installation of wine. Is there a way to determine where the .wine directory will be installed. I have an external HD and was wondering if it was possible to install wine to run on it instead of my internal drive. secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.

[vitamin]

I was wondering about the installation of wine. Is there a way to determine where the .wine directory will be installed. I have an external HD and was wondering if it was possible to install wine to run on it instead of my internal drive. secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.

You can't really control where Wine itself is installed (unless you compile it yourself). However ~/.wine directory is Wine's "configuration". Wine is not installed there.

If you want to move that whole directory out to external harddrive (which CAN NOT be ntfs or fat-32) you have to use WINEPREFIX environment variable. And set it to what you want "~/.wine" be. For example:

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export WINEPREFIX=/media/external_drive/wine

[Dan Kegel]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:40 PM, dctalk37 <[email protected]> wrote:

I was wondering about the installation of wine.
Is there a way to determine where the .wine directory will be installed.
I have an external HD and was wondering if it was
possible to install wine to run on it instead of my
internal drive.

Yes. See WINEPREFIX.

secondly i was wondering if it was possible to
control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.

Nope.
- Dan

[austin987]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:40 PM, dctalk37 <[email protected]> wrote:

secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.

$ du - h ~/.wine

Will tell you how large it is. For controlling the size, you'd have to
do that in your OS itself, and is not for the faint of heart.

[James McKenzie]

Austin English wrote:

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:40 PM, dctalk37 <[email protected]> wrote:

secondly i was wondering if it was possible to control the size of the .wine directory or if i could find out how it is determined.

$ du - h ~/.wine

Will tell you how large it is. For controlling the size, you'd have to
do that in your OS itself, and is not for the faint of heart.

Austin:

The question is WHY would a user want to control the size of the .wine
partition? If it is an issue of space on the /home directory, this
means that the operating system was not installed with best practices.

This may lead to a possible re-installation of the OS.

James McKenzie

[austin987]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:03 PM, James McKenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:

Austin:

The question is WHY would a user want to control the size of the .wine
partition? If it is an issue of space on the /home directory, this means
that the operating system was not installed with best practices.

This may lead to a possible re-installation of the OS.

James McKenzie

Agreed, very good question. But reinstallation of the OS and
configuring disk quotas is not a Wine issue, and should be handled by
the user/distro support channels.

[dctalk37]

well thanks for the info guys. I'll have to look into wineprefix when i have some spare time. And i was wondering about changing the size of the partition because i only had 8gb of space on my wine partition and ran out of room very fast after i installed World of warcraft on my laptop. But james there was right i did eventually reinstall my os cause i didn't do it right. it was my first attempt and man it was ugly . Thanks again guys