Problems installing wine

H74Z · Post by **H74Z** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:01 pm

Hello,

I have a Macbook and I installed Wine about two months ago and it was working however it was not working perfectly so I decided that I would try to reinstall it, I realized to late that I could have just updated it. So anyway I deleted "Program Files, windows and C:" in the windows explorer.exe X Windows system, I then deleted Macports ($ sudo rm -rf /opt ~/.wine /Applications/MacPorts) and Wine. Then I reinstalled Macport and used that to reinstall Wine. It went through the installation for about 45minutes and was done, but when I entered "cd ~/.wine/drive_c" It told me that 'there is no such directory' How can I fixed this?

Any help is appreciated

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:06 pm

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:01 PM, H74Z <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello,

I have a Macbook and I installed Wine about two months ago and it was working however it was not working perfectly so I decided that I would try to reinstall it, I realized to late that I could have just updated it. So anyway I deleted "Program Files, windows and C:" in the windows explorer.exe X Windows system, I then deleted Macports ($ sudo rm -rf /opt ~/.wine /Applications/MacPorts) and Wine. Then I reinstalled Macport and used that to reinstall Wine. It went through the installation for about 45minutes and was done, but when I entered "cd ~/.wine/drive_c" It told me that 'there is no such directory' How can I fixed this?

Any help is appreciated

type winecfg in the terminal or run any windows program.

John

jjmckenzie · Post by **jjmckenzie** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:19 pm

On 7/16/11 7:01 PM, H74Z wrote:

Hello,

I have a Macbook and I installed Wine about two months ago and it was working however it was not working perfectly so I decided that I would try to reinstall it, I realized to late that I could have just updated it. So anyway I deleted "Program Files, windows and C:" in the windows explorer.exe X Windows system, I then deleted Macports ($ sudo rm -rf /opt ~/.wine /Applications/MacPorts) and Wine. Then I reinstalled Macport and used that to reinstall Wine. It went through the installation for about 45minutes and was done, but when I entered "cd ~/.wine/drive_c" It told me that 'there is no such directory' How can I fixed this?

This directory is not created until you run one of the wine utilities
(winecfg is one) or you attempt to run either a Windows program or
installer.

There is no need to delete the $HOME/.wine (also called ~/.wine)
directory if you want to either upgrade or re-install Wine.

Can you provide further information on the difficulties you encounter
when you use Wine on your Mac. I am a fellow Mac user and there are
several of us 'volunteers' that can help.

James

H74Z · Post by **H74Z** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:20 pm

Thank you James,
This seems to have solved my problem. I hadn't realize that a ~/.wine directory isn't created until I install at least one program!
My other two questions where:

1) why do my icons in the explorer.exe app, in the windows folder of drive_c, look strange? (I could send you a screenshot to your email because I'm not sure how to add a jpg to my reply)

2)I have read that Wine HQ doesn't recommend installing Internet Explorer because of all the dll's but is there some web browser that you would recommend installing like perhaps Opera?

Post by **DanKegel** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 10:57 pm

winetricks has several web browsers in its menu, try several and see
which one you prefer.

firefox 3.5 is the only one where plugins work, I think?

Post by **dimesio** » Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:34 pm

DanKegel wrote: firefox 3.5 is the only one where plugins work, I think?

The workaround mentioned in http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17273#c11 enables plugins to work in later versions, too.