Wine??????

**Scottyy360** · 05-12-2004

Ok this is the deal I really need some help i can't get this damn thing to work i have wine installed then when i go to my run command in my menu bar i type in winelauncher and i get a screen that comes up (black with lime writing) and this is what it says: You have started Wine without specifying any arguments. (what the hell does that mean what do i do to fix it) It goes one to say: Wine requires at least one argumen - the name of the windows application you would like to run. And then it says stuff about KDE and Gnome.

I have went to winehq and read through the tutorials and it just lost me more im pulling my hair out over this how in the hell do i get this damn thing to run can someone please, please explain this to me from the begining in ENGLISH im new to linux and i don't get half of this crap. I have been trying to get this to work for about a month now im pretty desperate if someone could just help i would greatly appretiate it.
I read something about a configuring a config file what the hell is that that put me right over the top and dug me in and now im stuck like heck. Please Please help me.

Thanks.

P.S. I heard u had to have windows on ur pc to use wine is that true?

**zidane** · 05-12-2004

hmmm, im definately not an expert, but i do know that you do not need windows on your pc to run wine. (as far as i recall, wine can use some of the windows dll's if they are present, if not, it usues its own built in stuff).

as for starting it..... i installed it a while ago and had a bit of a play with it. i just fumbled my way through the install, and then doubleclicked on a .exe and it started. try running an exe and see what happens.

i can understand your frustrations though, as i recall when i had a play with it, it did seem a little complex, i put it away whilst i learned more about linux

**lordnothing** · 05-12-2004

the minimum command line for wine is:

Code:

wine <program>.exe

if you're using the winelauncher script, it's the same, but replace "wine" with "winelauncher"... be sure to replace <program> with the actual name of the program you are trying to run...

**Chris H** · 05-12-2004

There's a graphical frontend for wine called xwine (not to be confused with winex). Allows you to do all the command line stuff by point & click. Might be worth you getting hold of that.

**MAeStRo** · 05-13-2004

Originally Posted by lordnothing

the minimum command line for wine is:

Code:

wine <program>.exe

one more thing may help you
in order to run windows programs under linux like notepad u have to mount your windows partition at first then install wine
did u mount your windows installed partition ?

**kpzani** · 05-13-2004

ok scotty here's what I've done.
downloaded the wine rpm from http://www.winehq.com
open a terminal (in gnome right click desktop and choose new terminal)

Code:

su
****************
rpm -Uvh wine-20040505-1fc1winehq.athlon.rpm

to test the installation I tried to run the notepad program (built into wine)
from a terminal

Code:

wine notepad.exe

and after about 5 seconds a text editor (looks like emacs) pops up.
the HOWTO on the wine site says that I will have to change the mount point of the cdrom file in the wine.conf and more info can be found by running man wine.conf. so i did. But it doesn't actually mention the cdrom drive in the man file i have. never mind

on the documentation site it include this:
http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine...ve-main#AEN866
which says we need to change our /etc/fstab file and add the nohide option to the cdrom line.
so at a terminal

Code:

gedit /etc/fstab

make sure the line reads

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro,nohide 0 0

the fstab is space sensitive so you have
/dev/cdrom SPACE /mnt/cdrom SPACE udf,iso9660 SPACE noauto,owner,kudzu,ro,nohide SPACE 0 SPACE 0

save and close that file.

ok enough messing about. lets try and install something - macromedia dreamweaver.
pop cd in and mount it.

at a terminal

Code:

su
**************
cd /mnt/cdrom
wine Dreamweaver\ MX\ Installer

work through the install wizard
this errored like mad so. a quick nosey around the wine site returned my new friend Frank.
http://frankscorner.org/modules.php?...rtid=26&page=1
this page contains detailed instructions on setting up DW MX. so following his instructions.

And I still get some errors. Looks like I need to edit my wine.conf.

haven't got time to read all the documentation today. will get back to you when I get chance.

**Scottyy360** · 05-13-2004

hey thanks kpzani i tryed going to notepad.exe, but after i type in the command it says killed. whats that mean?

**kwr2k** · 02-16-2006

I get the same error. No matter what I try to run, I get 'Killed' as the terse reply with wine ...

Example:
$ wine
Killed
$ winecfg
Killed

etc.

Note it comes back with 'Killed' even when there's no program name given after it. Of course the same happens even if I try to run a program ...

I have tried looking at the output of "strace wine" to see if there's a missing file or library that's causing this but to no avail.

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