Configuring Wine

[Cable_Dude]

I'm currently using Red Hat Linux 8.0 and I read all the documentations, but I don't understand how to configurate WINE. Can anyone give me simple steps on how to do this?

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[LorKorub]

It depends on what you are using WINE for. First, you are going to have to load winesetup, the WINE graphical configuration tool.  When you launch it, it will ask you to create the default config file, which will be in /home/username/.wine/config. Next, you have to tell it to use an exisiting Windows 95/98 partition, or to create a standalone WINE directory in /home/username/.wine/fake_windows. I found, on Debian at least, that it works much better to just use the Win98 partition as the system directory, and then change the AppDLLOverides in the config file after you install a windows program.  This way, you will have all of the required DLLs, and you can just change the overrides in the /home/rk/.wine/config file.  This page, http://www.frankscorner.org/wine/, lists a bunch of win apps you can use, and how to override DLLs.

If you use fake_windows, you are going to have to do some searching to find DLLs that work for you.

[emh]

I've found that using the version of Wine that Codeweavers provides is a great way to get started with it.  You can use graphical interfaces to configure everything about it.  This way, you also learn about the things you can configure with it a lot more easily.

http://www.codeweavers.com

With that being said, I've also found that it's more difficult to get things running under Codeweavers Wine than it is a version of Wine installed from source directly from http://www.winehq.com  

So my suggestion would be to install Codeweavers wine, just to get a feel for it, switch between using an existing Windows installation and using a fake windows installation.  If you use a fake windows, it helps to copy the dll files from your windows installation over to the c/windows/system directory of your fake windows installation.

Now that your head must be spinning, have fun with it.  

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by Cable_Dude:
I'm currently using Red Hat Linux 8.0 and I read all the documentations, but I don't understand how to configurate WINE. Can anyone give me simple steps on how to do this?

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did you install wine when you installed red hat? if so then all you need to do is run 'wine nameofprogram.exe'. i associated wine with '*.exe' programs in KDE (which is what i currently use) to make it nice and easy to doubleclick them.

Of course this is crapand many windows programs don't work properly and anyway i will never need to use windows programs when there are perfectly good alternatives out there, but that's my experience with wine/red hat. Just thought i should mention it.