How to install Wine?

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How to install Wine?

#1 Post by jhouse59 »

I have Puppy 2.10. I'm trying to install Wine on it. I'm running off of a cd right now. I've read an article on installing Wine on Puppy 1.0.5 machine. Does anybody know how to do on version 2.10? I've tried using the same commands and the don't work. :?

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#2 Post by MU »

do you have a save-file to store your settings permanently?

If yes, download this file to /mnt/home and reboot:
http://dotpups.de/files/Wine-0.9.17_210.sfs

If not, then install this dotpup:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Emulators/Wine-0.9.17.pup

Then run in a consolewindow
winecfg
to set up c:\ , you usually can confirm the existing settings.
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#3 Post by jhouse59 »

Ok I went to http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Emulators/Wine-0.9.17.pup and downloaded Wine. Then ran a console window (well I opened a terminal window I guess thats what you were talking about). Typed in winecfg. It seems that it installed, but I don't see it in the Menu tab. Are there anything else I'm suppose to do. I've rebooted my computer a couple of times. Still don't see Wine.

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#4 Post by Pizzasgood »

You don't "see" wine. It doesn't show up in the menu. You just open a terminal window wherever the program you want to use is and add it's name after wine. Something like this:
wine notepad.exe

Right clicking the whitespace and choosing the option "xterm here" will open a terminal window at that location so you don't have to manually go there in the terminal (though I sometimes find that faster, especially with the tab-completion).
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#5 Post by MU »

wine has no menu-entry.

Install this dotpup:
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Emulators/Win ... ox-1.2.pup

Then you can click on a .exe in Rox to run it.
It also adds an entry for winecfg in the Puppy-menu.


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#6 Post by jhouse59 »

Thanks for the help. Is there away to place an icon on the desdtop? Or, will I just have to click on a .exe in Rox to run it.

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#7 Post by MU »

You can drag programs from rox to your desktop.
At least it works with wordview.

new version available:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=11458

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#8 Post by Torymon »

I'm getting errors about C:\windows not being accessible.
I'm wondering if you're supposed to have windows installed?
I've moved away from windoze but want to use irfanview for one.
Is there a work around?

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#9 Post by MU »

run winecfg
Go to the drives-tab and choose auto-detection.
Then it should work.

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