Wine Question

[tommygunner]

I'm a little bit confused with Wine. I was initially under the impression that you can install Windows packages or Linux or be without a Windows machine.

However, it looks like for some applications you are supposed to copy directly from the Program Files directory and from other places on Windows?

I understand that you can install apps from Crossover Linux but I'm not sure about Wine. I thought they were about the same.

[juxtaposed]

Anytime I used wine I just opened up the installer .exe in wine and installed it.

[PrimoTurbo]

all you have to do with wine is run the .exe file in the terminal with

wine nameofprogram.exe

Granted that a lot of stuff might not work correctly.

[steven8]

If you are used to windows, type winefile into the terminal, and this will open a windows-like file explorer. Browse to your exe and double click it.

[urukrama]

If you are used to windows, type winefile into the terminal, and this will open a windows-like file explorer.

Interesting. I didn't know this. Not that I will ever use it, though...

[Erunno]

Better yet: Just associate the mimetype with wine and all you'll have to do in the future is just to fire up your file manager and click on the executable.

[frup]

Better yet: Just associate the mimetype with wine and all you'll have to do in the future is just to fire up your file manager and click on the executable.

I thought wine installations did this automatically... They have in the past for me when I had it installed.