Can't get Wine to work.

[pidey]

Hello, I have a decent sized problem with getting wine to work.

My father wants to play partypoker on the computer which I newly installed Dapper Drake on.

I have downloaded and installed wine, and configured it all fine and well (I think)

I have also downloaded the installer for Partypoker

I run this line in the console

wine "C:\PartyPokerSetup.exe"
and nothing appears, I can hear the harddrive whir though. I cannot figure out what to do, according to a friend a window should be popping up.

[antidrugue]

wine "C:\PartyPokerSetup.exe"

That won't work. You have to give the path to it, in a UNIX like syntax. Something like that :

wine ./PartyPokerSetup.exe

if the file is in the current directory.

Here is a little tutorial about bash (command line) syntax and UNIX in general :
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/

By the way, did you install wine like that?
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_install_Wine

[pidey]

Ok, I tried it your way, same result.

wine /media/crossover/PartyPokerSetup.exe
results in no error messages, yet nothing pops up.

PS: About the running it through a dos/windows like filepath, I simply mimic-ed what I saw at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wine for running WoW. I also obeyed the instructions on that page to install Wine.

[antidrugue]

wine /media/crossover/PartyPokerSetup.exe
results in no error messages, yet nothing pops up.

So you typed this in the terminal? And no error messages?

I suggest you follow the complete Party Poker on Linux how-to :
http://www.compatiblepoker.com/Onlin...r-Wine.cms.htm

But first make sure your "wine" is working. Type

wine

in a terminal, a window should appear.

[pidey]

No, when I type wine in a console, no windows come up and the console spits out a "usage guideline" thingy.

[spencerf]

you need to issue the wine command to the exact location of the .exe file you are trying to run.

so if the .exe file is in: /home/bob/file.exe
you need to:

wine /home/bob/file.exe

or

cd /home/bob
wine file.exe

it seems like you aren't directing wine to the exact location of the partypoker.exe file.

[pidey]

spencerf:

I am guiding it to the correct directory, I am positive of that, I have located it on my partition named "crossover" which is mounted under /media

and I have said earlier,

wine /media/crossover/PartyPokerSetup.exe
results in no error messages, yet nothing pops up.

Also, just for kicks, I downloaded another program (west point bridge designer 2005) and it installed correctly and everything, window popped up and all. (granted, the program is still as buggy on linux as it was on windows)

[DryOasis]

Sounds like you need to install mozilla active x.