Finding Wine after install

[Russell Cook]

Lindsay wrote:

>On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 20:23 +1100, Russell Cook wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi Linz,
>>Wine is not a whole environment, it is (in my simplistic
>>understanding) a program(or suite) that provides a library of Windows
>>function calls and translates them to Linux (X?) calls. As such it
>>doesn't provide a full windows manager. 
>>
>>You typically run it by typing "wine program_path/name" where
>>program_path/name is the program and location you wish wine to
>>execute. 
>>
>>To check it is installed open a terminal window and type "which
>>wine" (no quotes of course). This willshow you where wine is
>>installed. To run a windows app you'll likely need to run the setup
>>program for the application you wish to run. i.e. you need to install
>>it with a command similar to  "wine /path_to_program/setup.exe"  
>>
>>Once installed the application will exist in your "fake" windows
>>environment. For me this is  "/home/ruscook/.wine/drive_c" or
>>"/home/ruscook/.wine/fake_windows"
>>    
>>
>Thanks Russ.   Very informative.  I'll try and copy a couple of small
>files over tomorrow and see what happens.
>Let me see that I got this right though.  I would type
>wine /home/myname/.wine/fake_windows/filename.exe
>
>where myname and filename.exe are examples.  Case sensitivity is still
>an issue I guess?
>  
>
Once the application is installed yes.
Russ

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