How to run a program in wine? [solved]

[RIZARDOUZ7]

I have already installed wine and as well the windows program that I would like to emulate. Now, I want to know how will I run the program via wine. I tried running the application via task manager but nothing happens.

I hope you can help me.

Thanks

[muggins]

That depends on the program...most work fine. Right-click any .exe file, and select Set Run Action, and it should be wine "$@"

If you click on an install .exe, it will install the program to the hidden directory /root/.wine. To have the program in your menu, see here.

[Sylvander]

I generally use/run portable Windows programs that don't need to be installed.
The only frequently used prog is "Acerose Password Vault".

I keep all of these in various folders in a dedicated partition on an internal HDD, but they could be anywhere that Puppy can access.

To run such a portable program, I:
1. Click on the sda6 icon to mount the partition holding the programs.

2. Click on a the "Console" icon on the desktop to run it.

3. Enter the command winefile and the Winefile window opens.

4. Navigate down through /mnt/sda6/Windows/Run External Programs/[programfolder]/... to double-click on the exe file.
e.g.
/mnt/sda6/Windows/Run External Programs/Password Vault/Acerose/v1,02/Acerose.exe
[My Acerose password vault = great program]

[RIZARDOUZ7]

Thanks! However, I wasn't able to make the software work probably because it won't really work when emulated by wine. Nothing happens when I try to launch it via task manager or even run the .exe file.

If there is any chance that you guys are not busy enough to do me a favor, can you download the software I am trying to emulate on wine. www.birdyadder.com/

You can download the trial version and try to make it work on wine and if ever you make it work on wine, please contact me and explain how you did it.

It is a twitter managing software, and is one of the paid softwares that I really want to work on linux. According to the site, the program works on mac via virtual box, so probably it might work on linux.

However, I really tried running it on wine but failed. I hope you guys cand make it work.

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
Did you try running it via the command line?
Navigate to its directory in .wine, where you installed it, (prob program files)
open a terminal there with `. (single quote)
Type:
wine programname.exe
Ex. wine wordpad.exe
and see the error messages
Install any missing .dll`s thru winetricks...
When it works, make a .desktop file for it in /usr/share/applications
(dont forget an icon..)
Then run fixmenus to make a menu entry...

[RIZARDOUZ7]

I tried that command already but the application does not launch. But I'll try that fix regarding missing dlls.

I'll update you guys. However, if it does not really works probably the software does not work when emulated on wine.

[Sylvander]

1. I installed the program by running the installation exe file, and got the following in the Console window:

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# winefile
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33fe50) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:win:DisableProcessWindowsGhosting : stub# winefile
wine: Install the Windows version of Mono to run .NET executables
fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilter c049 00000001
fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilter c049 00000001
fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilter c049 00000001
fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete stub
fixme:advapi:SetNamedSecurityInfoW L"C:\\users\\Public\\Application Data\\BirdyAdder" 1 4 (nil) (nil) 0x17e070 (nil)
fixme:sfc:SfcIsFileProtected ((nil), L"C:\\Program Files\\BirdyAdder\\unins000.exe") stub
wine: Install the Windows version of Mono to run .NET executables

2. Then used the winefile command and navigated to the program exe file and double-clicked it and got the following in the Console window:

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# winefile
wine: Install the Windows version of Mono to run .NET executables

The program didn't run.

[RIZARDOUZ7]

Oh thank you very much! Anyway, I guess I'll just use my windows xp once in a while for that application.

[Sylvander]

The exe file for Mono_for_Windows 2000,XP,2003,Vista.

Got on this web-page.