winesetup

[newuser111]

when you run winesetup, did you specify your actual windows partition or let it create a fake windows installation?

i ask because i let it create a fake windows installation but when i tried to run a game, it said it was missing dx files, so i copied some over but the game has other errors

will wine work with a windows install on an NTFS partition and is this better than using the fake files

[YokoZar]

Do not use winesetuptk.

At all.

[newuser111]

so whats the best way to setup wine then?

[Cyril]

If you are using one of the later versions of wine, you can just run winecfg in a terminal. I don't know about earlier versions of wine though.

[dotdot]

has anyone written a here's how you use wine - anywhere. ?
I have only ubuntu on a laptop (not dual boot) and wondered how to install anything i have from winland which i need.

(I don't really wish to trash everything and have to reinstall... do i sound sceptical?).. well it is friday and i dont want to waste too much time of this w/end on this ...
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[YokoZar]

has anyone written a here's how you use wine - anywhere. ?
I have only ubuntu on a laptop (not dual boot) and wondered how to install anything i have from winland which i need.

(I don't really wish to trash everything and have to reinstall... do i sound sceptical?).. well it is friday and i dont want to waste too much time of this w/end on this ...
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The Wine User's Guide: http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index

Written in part by yours truly. If something in there seems incomplete or confusing, please post here and I'll try and update it.

[joshbennett]

i am also haveing trouble with wine, i initially wanted to create a call of duty united offensive server with my ubuntu station but that didn't work i couldn't find the files so i tried to install wine and when i ran the setup file in a terminal it went through and had an error but went a way to fast for me to read it... can anyone help?