winetricks won't open from terminal

[holmesmr]

mike@mike-Inspiron-N4010:~$ winetricks
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wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned unexpanded string '%ProgramFiles%' ... can be caused a corrupt wineprefix, an old wine, or by not owning /home/mike/.wine
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mike@mike-Inspiron-N4010:~$


I'm new to linux so does anybody have a fix for this? I'm trying to play LoL on here but I need extra packages from winetricks, and it won't open. Please help!

[dimesio]

mike@mike-Inspiron-N4010:~$ winetricks
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wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned unexpanded string '%ProgramFiles%' ... can be caused a corrupt wineprefix, an old wine, or by not owning /home/mike/.wine
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mike@mike-Inspiron-N4010:~$

The terminal gave you three possible reasons; figure out which one it is. Delete the wineprefix, upgrade to the latest development release if you're not already using it, and reinstall your apps as a normal user (never run Wine as root).

[gutigen]

Same error here while trying to run winetricks.

The terminal gave you three possible reasons; figure out which one it is. Delete the wineprefix, upgrade to the latest development release if you're not already using it, and reinstall your apps as a normal user (never run Wine as root).

This is not helpfull at all. I got latest wine release, fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install and deleting wineprefix doesn't help.

[dimesio]

This is not helpfull at all. I got latest wine release, fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install and deleting wineprefix doesn't help.

Read the sticky at the top of the forum about Ubuntu 12.04.

[gabrielmng]

To fully reset wine one must delete (or rename if you wanna do some backup) ~/.wine folder.
After that you can remove and re-install wine and everything will be as new.

[kanutomay]

The problem is with windows environment variables set by wine (%SystemDrive% is not set). To fix this, registry needs to be modified and variable set to "C:"

1) Verify variable settings:
$ wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%
%SystemDrive%\Program Files

$ wine cmd.exe /c echo '%SystemDrive%
%SystemDrive%

2) Set missing variable:
$ wine cmd.exe /c regedit
a) Go to: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]
b) Set string variable: "SystemDrive"="C:"

Hope is more helpful than moderator answer