satelliteuser083 Posted December 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 (edited) It's just creating shortcuts, so you can ignore this bit. you can be in your home directory, or you can create an icon. Let's say you have Google Earth installed (not that it works but never mind), this would be what you type: wine "c:\program files\google\google earth\googleearth.exe" quotes are important as above because of the spaces in program files, etc. Obviously, replace the middle bit with your program name, and that's all you need to do. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry for being so dim, but here's another (important) question. The command that you quoted looks like geniune MSDOS syntax; is this coincidental and does the program to be run have to reside in the Linux environment, or does the program have to actually be on a Windows partition? My reason for asking is as follows; I know that Windows generously strews files into various directories during an app's installation, which would be difficult to find and transfer to the linux environment if the app is simply copied from Windows to Linux. I'm assuming here that the app is not actually INSTALLED into Linux - perhaps I'm wrong. Edited December 23, 2005 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 No, it resides in Linux. Wine creates a virtual windows if you like, that is why it's in the quotes. When you type c:\program files, etc, etc. what it's actually pointing to is /home/username/c/program files/etc, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted December 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 No, it resides in Linux. Wine creates a virtual windows if you like, that is why it's in the quotes. When you type c:\program files, etc, etc. what it's actually pointing to is /home/username/c/program files/etc, etc. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks. Now, hopefully the final question. How do I actually get an app into Linux? I've been to http://www.winehq.org/FAQ but failed to clarify this; it mentions that a Windows licence is not necessary with wine, but doesn't explain how the apps are installed. I assume that there's some wine-utility or other for this :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 you can just do wine setup.exe for whatever program. Some don't work, so you have to copy the installation from a Windows setup into Linux, and then sort it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted December 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 you can just do wine setup.exe for whatever program. Some don't work, so you have to copy the installation from a Windows setup into Linux, and then sort it out. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Will try it. Many thanks :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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