Before I begin

**Lloydb39** · February 10th, 2018

I want to try Wine, specifically to use dBase, but like a good user I went to the sticky notes. They are dated 10 years ago! Is this useful information? Do I just install it from the software center and proceed from there?

**RobGoss** · February 11th, 2018

Just took a look in the Ubuntu center it seems to be working for most users until this day. I would just give it a try and see how it goes

**Lloydb39** · February 12th, 2018

Well, I did. When I tried to start dBase, nothing happened although Wine seems to be running and I got no error message. so....

**mastablasta** · February 13th, 2018

did you run it from terminal?

wine nameofprogram

still no error message?

**Lloydb39** · February 13th, 2018

Thanks. I got this:

wine: cannot find L"C:\\windows\\system32\\dbase.exe"

**1fallen** · February 13th, 2018

I don't see where you first ran:

Code:

winecfg

**Lloydb39** · February 14th, 2018

Is that necessary? I have the Wine configuration wizard. I used it to tell it to allow dBase. Software Center seemed to install it properly so I didn't know I had to go to the terminal for anything. I thought I could right click on the dBase exe file and tell it to run under Wine. No?

**mastablasta** · February 19th, 2018

winecfg configures the wine. it's a GUi tool not a CLI (terminal based) one.

https://wiki.winehq.org/Winecfg

i am not sure what the configuration wizzard does. it could be it does the same thing. but perhaps it missed a setting?

in any case, the error message you posted says that wine has problem finding the file itself.

i would start by browsing to the file and then run it from file manager or better yet and for diagnostic purposes open terminal at said location and then try to run it.