Silly answers to silly questions for a silly Noob.

JDorfler · Post by **JDorfler** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:39 am

OK, I'm a noob to Wine. I've figured some stuff out with Wine and it sees everything I want it to see just fine. However seeing it isn't the same as running it. Then again I haven't tried very hard.

OK, I understand why you don't want Wine to see your windows install, but I put all my program installs on a separate partition. Now with this in mind can I just have Wine look at my Program Files and run my apps from there, or do I have to reinstall all the apps I want Wine to run on my Linux partition via Wine?

I'm not worried about running applications such as Office suites or Mail clients. Everything work wise I can do in Windows I can do in Linux and I have all my data synced. In fact I can do more with Linux than I can do in WinXP anyways, and most times better, faster, and more secure anyway.

So with that, There's only a few things I want to run in Wine, mostly older games I have hanging around since the Win95 era. Mostly stuff that doesn't run in SCUMMVM or DOSBOX. Such as Baldur's Gate II, Escape From Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and other such classics.

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:55 pm

JDorfler <[email protected]> at Sep 23, 2008 9:39 AM (MST) wrote about [Wine] Silly answers to silly questions for a silly Noob.

OK, I'm a noob to Wine. I've figured some stuff out with Wine and it sees everything I want it to see just fine.

Welcome to the Wine Club!

OK, I understand why you don't want Wine to see your windows install, but I put all my program installs on a separate partition. Now with this in mind can I just have Wine look at my Program Files and run my apps from there, or do I have to reinstall all the apps I want Wine to run on my Linux partition via Wine?

You should reinstall all of the applications to insure that registry changes are written to the Wine registry by the program's installer. Without these changes and updates, your programs may not run. Also, it is suggested that you have one version installed for Windows and another for Wine. You should NOT link the C:\Program Files from any Windows installation to replace the C:\Program Files in Wine. This is discussed in the Frequently Asked Questions area on Wine HQ.

So with that, There's only a few things I want to run in Wine, mostly older games I have hanging around since the Win95 era. Mostly stuff that doesn't run in SCUMMVM or DOSBOX. Such as Baldur's Gate II, Escape From Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and other such classics.

Please visit the Applications Database to discover what must be done, if anything, to make these games run under Wine. Some older games do not run properly because of requirements that the games impose on the Windows API that Wine does not presently support.

James McKenzie

Susan Cragin · Post by **Susan Cragin** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:43 pm

I think the answer to this question is that you want to re-install everything in Linux.
It's easy.
Just put the program's installation file (for example monkeyisland.exe) on your desktop, navigate there in a terminal, and run

wine monkeyisland

Should work like a charm. You can with some distributions just double-click on monkeyisland and the distro will recognize that an exe file runs with wine.

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From: JDorfler <[email protected]>
Sent: Sep 23, 2008 12:39 PM
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Subject: [Wine] Silly answers to silly questions for a silly Noob.

OK, I'm a noob to Wine. I've figured some stuff out with Wine and it sees everything I want it to see just fine.

OK, I understand why you don't want Wine to see your windows install, but I put all my program installs on a separate partition. Now with this in mind can I just have Wine look at my Program Files and run my apps from there, or do I have to reinstall all the apps I want Wine to run on my Linux partition via Wine?

I'm not worried about running applications such as Office suites or Mail clients. Everything work wise I can do in Windows I can do in Linux and I have all my data synced. In fact I can do more with Linux than I can do in WinXP anyways, and most times better, faster, and more secure anyway.

So with that, There's only a few things I want to run in Wine, mostly older games I have hanging around since the Win95 era. Mostly stuff that doesn't run in SCUMMVM or DOSBOX. Such as Baldur's Gate II, Escape From Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and other such classics.

JDorfler · Post by **JDorfler** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:13 pm

Thanks.

James Huk · Post by **James Huk** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:06 am

2008/9/23 JDorfler <[email protected]>

Thanks.

I disagree here - you can try running your apps first - "most" will work

that way (especially games) - if they won't - reinstall them. Reinstalling
everything you want to use may lead to unnecessary disk usage - beside, if
something works without re installation - then what's the point?
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James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:18 pm

James Huk wrote:

2008/9/23 JDorfler <[email protected]>

Thanks.

I disagree here - you can try running your apps first - "most" will work

that way (especially games) - if they won't - reinstall them. Reinstalling
everything you want to use may lead to unnecessary disk usage - beside, if
something works without re installation - then what's the point?

If it works? If you do not install some programs, they do NOT work
properly in Wine as the installer writes information to the current
registry. Also, I have several working and not so working Wine
prefixes on my system. Yes, this does take up space, but you CAN use
the same area for user data, which in most cases is the largest use of
space on any hard drive I've ever seen. I did not state this in my
first reply and that was an oversight. Please be aware that Linux and
subsequently, Wine, have problems writing files into NTFS directories.

James McKenzie

hendrik · Post by **hendrik** » Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:56 am

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 07:18:09PM -0700, James McKenzie wrote:

James Huk wrote:
2008/9/23 JDorfler <[email protected]>

Thanks.

I disagree here - you can try running your apps first - "most" will work

that way (especially games) - if they won't - reinstall them. Reinstalling
everything you want to use may lead to unnecessary disk usage - beside, if
something works without re installation - then what's the point?

If it works? If you do not install some programs, they do NOT work
properly in Wine as the installer writes information to the current
registry. Also, I have several working and not so working Wine
prefixes on my system.

I've found it useful to place my use data elsewhere and use a symbolic
limk to it. That way, if things go wrong with my wine and I screw up
.wine (or whatever prefix I'm using), I can delete it, reinstall, and my
data will still be easy to find,

Yes, this does take up space, but you CAN use

the same area for user data, which in most cases is the largest use of
space on any hard drive I've ever seen. I did not state this in my
first reply and that was an oversight. Please be aware that Linux and
subsequently, Wine, have problems writing files into NTFS directories.

James McKenzie