Wine Issue

rjcube · June 18, 2006, 10:58pm

I try to run a .exe from the terminal but it brings up an error message:

rjcube@rjcube-desktop:~$ wine /mnt/vcd1/install.exe Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not accessible. Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is not accessible. Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/rjcube', starting in the Windows directory. wine: cannot find '/mnt/vcd1/install.exe'

How can I get this file running?

Thank you in advance for any help.

megamaced · June 19, 2006, 12:03am

Hey Rjcube

Have you configured the virtual Windows drives in WINE yet?

just type:

winecfg

And check it’s all set up properly.

Also, Wine Tools can do this for you.

rjcube · June 19, 2006, 12:12am

[QUOTE=megamaced]
Hey Rjcube

Have you configured the virtual Windows drives in WINE yet?

just type:

winecfg

And check it’s all set up properly.

Also, Wine Tools can do this for you.
[/QUOTE]

What directory would I need to set the virtual C Drive to?

btw, thats the best error message ever: You do not have a C Drive. This is not so great.

megamaced · June 19, 2006, 12:20am

Wine will set the directory for you.

I think it’s normally located at

~/.wine/

BTW, you may want to check out Wine Doors. It’s a brand new project set up to replace the aging Wine Tools.

rjcube · June 19, 2006, 12:55am

Wine tools helpped me install the virtul drive and the files run now, thanks allot once again mega, ur always a huge help.

megamaced · June 19, 2006, 10:38pm

BTW, the version of WINE in the Ubuntu repositories is quite old. Newer versions can be downloaded by adding:

deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main

Into your sources.list file.

Then

apt-get update

Followed by

apt-get install wine

I tried to configure WINE ealier today with WineTools and it was an absolute nightmare! WineTools is really showing it’s age and it doesn’t even work properly with the lastest WINE version. The new WineDoors project looks promising, but they haven’t made a release yet!

rjcube · June 20, 2006, 6:27pm

[QUOTE=megamaced]
BTW, the version of WINE in the Ubuntu repositories is quite old. Newer versions can be downloaded by adding:

deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main

Into your sources.list file.

Then

apt-get update

Followed by

apt-get install wine

I tried to configure WINE ealier today with WineTools and it was an absolute nightmare! WineTools is really showing it’s age and it doesn’t even work properly with the latest WINE version. The new WineDoors project looks promising, but they haven’t made a release yet!
[/QUOTE]

Sweet, thanks for the update.

Also, I agree that WineDoors looks pretty promising too, I shall be looking forward to the release.