[SOLVED] Just getting the thing working

**rurinix** · December 19th, 2007

I have freshly installed Wine via apt-get. I have searched forums galore for anything which talked about the problem I am having. I have yet to have found anyone else with this same issue. I cannot read anything in Wine, it shows up as gibberish. Not even like a different language, but rather lines, dots and symbols. The version is 9.46, since that's what came with Gutsy. I am running on an AMD Athlon XP 2000 with 1GB RAM and over 100GB of free hard drive space (though I doubt any of those would have caused a problem like this). Based on a suggestions I found form a Wine bug report, I tried to remove TrueType font Tamil, but I couldn't find it installed on my system. Almost everything installed on this system is stock. I want to use Wine so that I can use software specific to Windows for test studying. I know there is no Linux equivalent for this software. I have attached screenshots of the Wine Config app and Notepad. As you can see, I can't read anything, but it does read what I type.

Any suggestions?

**solar george** · December 19th, 2007

Try deleting your ~/.wine directory.

**rurinix** · December 20th, 2007

Just for curiosity, I upgraded to 9.51 using a .deb found at the following URL:

http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/

Works like a champ now. Strange...

**cogadh** · December 20th, 2007

That's the official Wine Debian/Ubuntu repository. If you follow the instructions here, you can set up Ubuntu to use that repository and you will always be kept up to date with the latest Wine through Ubuntu's automatic updates.