Laugh as You must but, how does wine work

[Parrott]

ok i go to download it and im getting really confused here, im running red hat if that helps... also im trying to get dmsn to work on linux but i odnt know what to do for that one either www.dmsn.nl.... so yeah help the n00b

[Commander]

download the wine rpm from from their site(winehq.org) and run it.  this will install wine.  if u want to run a exe, type
$ "wine <whatever>.exe" in shell and it would run
 
and as for dmsn, just download the proper bin file.  after going through the installation, it would make a rundmsn(i think that's what it's called) shell script in ur home directory.  run that and that;s it!

[Parrott]

umm, less technical?

[Fett101]

quote:Originally posted by Xp Convert:
umm, less technical?

Magic  

[Stryker]

don't they have instructions on their site?

[Commander]

WINE:
download the proper RPM file from URL=http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241]this[/URL] page.  for eg. wine-20030813-1rh9winehq.i686.rpm if u r running redhat 9 with a i686 arch

after doing that, open a terminal, and type
$ rpm -i <filename>.rpm
and follow the instructions.  the installations does take a while so have patience.

DMSN:
download this file.
then open a terminal, cd to the directory you downloaded the file to and type,
$ sh Setup.bin
and it will start a windows like setup and it's done.  the setup will create a rundmsn_messenger script in your ~(home: /home/USER) directory.  to run that, open a terminal and type
$ sh rundmsn_messenger
this will start dmsn.

there.  hope that's a little more clear

PS: i'm not so dure about the filenames, i'll try to edit them to the exact ones once i get back.

[Parrott]

thank you for your help...