winecfg

[miykle]

G'Day, New to Ubuntu, new to wine, need help,
When I enter "winecfg" I get this

miykle@miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"c:\\windows" (2)

What does it mean and how do I proceed from here.
I have UBUNTU 7.10
Comp. has two HD's one with windows other with Linux.
Many Blessings Miykle

[austin987]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 3:16 AM, miykle <[email protected]> wrote:

[Embarassed] G'Day, New to Ubuntu, new to wine, need help,
When I enter "winecfg" I get thismiykle@miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"c:\\windows" (2)

What does it mean and how do I proceed from here.
I have UBUNTU 7.10
Comp. has two HD's one with windows other with Linux.
Many Blessings Miykle

[Rolling Eyes]

Try:
$ rm -rf ~/.wine
$ winecfg

And see if that helps.

[James McKenzie]

miykle wrote:

[Embarassed] G'Day, New to Ubuntu, new to wine, need help,
When I enter "winecfg" I get thismiykle@miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible.
err:wineboot:main Cannot set the dir to L"c:\\windows" (2)

Also, please keep in mind that one should not run Wine as root as this
looks like what you might have tried or you installed Wine as root and
it created a .wine folder under the $HOME directory for the user you are
trying to run winecfg as.

Please do the following:

rm -rf ~/.wine
if you receive error messages about not being able to do so, then do the
following:
sudo rm -rf ~/.wine
type in your user password
and then
winecfg
which will recreate the ~/.wine folder as the present user with
appropriate permissions.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

[miykle]

G'Day ; Thanks for the prompt reply, I entered those instructions and got this ;

miykle@miykle-desktop:~$ sudo rm -rf ~/.wine
miykle@miykle-desktop:~$ winecfg
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/miykle/.wine'...
Could not load Mozilla. HTML rendering will be disabled.
wine: '/home/miykle/.wine' created successfully.
fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet
fixme:msg:pack_message msg 14 (WM_ERASEBKGND) not supported yet
miykle@miykle-desktop:~$

When the wine dialogue box opens what do I enter if anything ??

Many Blessings Miykle

[vitamin]

When the wine dialogue box opens what do I enter if anything ??

What do you need Wine for? Looks like it's time for some FAQ reading.

[miykle]

G'Day : Well I run winecfg again and this time it seems to have worked, The message ended in successful and when I tried loading a program, ex windows, it installed ok, except it was in Greek, not English ??. does anyone know why it would use Greek and not english ???.
I'll have to do some reading, as was suggested, about the "Wine configuration" window.
Thank you for all your help, I do appreciate it !!!
Blessings Miykle

[Dan Kegel]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:55 PM, miykle <[email protected]> wrote:

G'Day : Well I run winecfg again and this time it seems to have worked,
The message ended in successful and when I tried loading a program,
ex windows, it installed ok, except it was in Greek, not English ??.
does anyone know why it would use Greek and not english ???.
I'll have to do some reading, as was suggested, about the
"Wine configuration" window.

Please don't post the same question multiple times in fifteen
minutes...

We have no idea why you're running winecfg, nor why you're seeing
greek.
What apps are you trying to install?

I think perhaps you might benefit from the idea somebody
had this morning of training videos for how to use Wine,
that show how to use it from ground zero to load a few
common Windows apps. Perhaps we can whip such a video
together in the next week...

[miykle]

G'Day : Thanks again for the reply, I apologize if I did the wrong thing with posting twice, as I said I'm new to this whole deal.
I used winecfg because thats what the wine site told me I should do, I don't understand why it's the wrong thing to do , and if I might, whats "root" mean. I've only been using this OS for three days so please be patient, it's so different to windows, but thats the whole point, to learn something new.
The things James McKenzie told me to do worked fine.
I'm using wine because I was told I could run my programs for windows in wine, as they are not compatible with Linux, They are , what I call active libraries, you open say "AGES LIBRARY" and then you have the option of 25 different books to choose from as well as being able to cross reference the same topic in several books, I have 6 of these libraries all pertaining to different subject matter, all the books are in PDF format.
So I got wine and finally installed it and loaded 1 library, it worked fine but was in Greek instead of English ???
Many thanks Miykle

[AlanJ]

Since you are very new to linux it might be better if you did some reading/exploring on that first, you mentioned Ubuntu, their forum has a very good beginners section.

If the files you wish to view are all PDF files you don't need to install anything under wine, Ubuntu can display PDF files easily.