New to this. Trying to install a dos game

[1984]

Hi there, I'm new to using wine and am currently having some issues installing my first dos game using linux mint.

I will probably use dosbox to play it but need wine for its windows installer.

If you must know the game is Chex Quest. It's a game about intergalactic cereal. (Chex cereal)

The problem that i have encountered is although the installer opens and works fine, there are video files in .smk format that are used in the game.

The when I get done selecting all the stuff like where I want to install it to an error message comes up saying "file_name_here could not be opened"

I'm a bit confused. What do I need to do in order to sucessfully install this game.

Thanks

[doh123]

a DOS game that requires Windows to install? weird... I'd probably just install it on Windows and move it over...

what commands did you actually type in... and what all did it say? make sure you run it from the folder... cd into the folder and run it from there so the working directory is right, thats often the cause of file not found issues.

[1984]

The file is found alright. It just can't open it in the installer.

[doh123]

The file is found alright. It just can't open it in the installer.

the file being found, or ran doesn't have anything to do with what the working folder is... many progrmas will launch and sort of seem to work even though they don't fully work, all because of what folder you are in when you start the program.... its why I asked if you did like...

cd /the/path/to/theinstall
wine gamename.exe

or if you did
wine /the/path/to/theinstall/gamename.exe

the second way in some program can lead to that program not being able to find files its looking for.