Trouble with Wine in Ubuntu 8.10?

Question

How do you configure Wine so that it'll actually work?

Answer 1

WINE can be installed via the Synaptic Package Manager https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

Once it is installed it can be configured from the menu using winecfg. http://www.codeweavers.com/support/docs/wine-user/config-wine-main



LUg.

Answer 2

I can not get it to work for most programs. I gave up and installed Windows Vista and Linux Ubuntu to Duel Boot using Wubi.

Answer 3

Do you mean install it on Ubuntu? Or to run a program

Answer 4

What are you trying to run with it?



Here's the documentation:

http://ftp.winehq.org/pub/wine/docs/en/wineusr-guide.html



Edit:

All you need is the "wine" package.

You can install it with:

sudo apt-get install wine



After it's installed run:

winecfg



And configure it the way you want.



Then to run programs, type:

wine /path/to/program.exe

Answer 5

Use Windows instead.