cannot run wine on ubuntu

You need to open a terminal "Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal", then navigate to the directory where you want to execute the file (i.e. filename.exe) and then type 'wine filename.exe' in the terminal.. As for the entry, I don't think wine creates any entry in the menus, because you normally launch the application through the terminal..

Hope this helps...

If you installed wine via apt, then you simply launch your windows application by clicking on it, wine does the rest.

still cant do anything with wine or any microsloth application. wine does not seem to function. i have noticed that every other addon program from the available listings downloaded for ubuntu through the ubuntu downloader/installer has failed to appear anywhere although being assured by the program that they are fully installed. i wonder if this is a common condition. i am a newbie of 1 day old with linux in any form. i would desperately like never to go back to my xp windoze crash dummy. should i reinstall ubuntu?

wine does not have a menu entry, windows executables open with wine autoatically after its installed, if this is not happening then you should follow answer #1 to launch your app.
i.e. if your app is app.exe at console type 'wine app.exe'

Reinstalling Ubuntu wouldn't change anything...

Wine is not exactly a program... I mean, it has GUI, so you shouldn't expect from it to have a menu entry... It wouldn't come up asking you what program you want to run... It is something like an interpreter... So, as said before, if you have a program called progra.exe, form command link you should type "wine program.exe" without brackets...

As even said, wine can launch windows programs by double clicking the exes icons... Anyway I don't suggest such a practice, since if you need to download a dll to run the program you will be told only in the terminal... If you need a dll to run the program (which, at first uses is closely possible) you can download them from the internet and place them in /home/user/.wine/drive_C/Windows
Notice that it's there that all the windows programs installed go...

About the menu issue, if you notice in Synaptic there are some packages with the ubuntu icon on the side, some others have no icon... Mostly, only the ones with the icon will get automatically an icon...
If you want to add items in the menu, you should use the Alacarte menu editor, which is a program already installed.

Hope it helps!

Hi Peggy, I'm interested to know how you are doing with all of this.
I'm new myself and would like to know the procedure even for installing
a Win App and if Wine actually has worked for you.

Best

JF

gidday jeff , thanks for the input from yourself and others, i have still not been able to figure out my wine problem. i have reinstalled many times the wine by both the installer and also automatix2. i am assured at all times that it has been installed but the fake c drive that is all important does not appear to be in place also the fake win32 folder which the dlls will need to go, and fake program file folder where the program will probably be installed to, do not appear to exist. i know where the folder for wine is and it is indeed in the desktop user area and when viewed from the tree there is very little in it. i have read the info files that are there along with it and have copied and pasted the command line at the terminal as directed but to no avail. i have been to wine hq and read different postings on wine installation but i cannot configure or make dependencies with what seems to be a layer not quite there. this problem may stem from installation programs not being able to overwrite existing files based on the "cup is full" scenario where files may not have been uninstalled completely yet not be complete in their structure when first installed and the installation software not overwriting because they are found during reinstall and deemed unnessesary to warrant overwriting because they already exist however corrupt or possibly incomplete they may be. my thoughts are that the problem may even be a single file but an all important one. i might just format my hard disk and start again from scratch. i will never give up on linux, it is too good. the small program i wish to install is very old and was written to run on the windoze95 crash dummy and will run happily on the later versions. it is a very powerful graphical interface from computer to cnc machine which is elegant in its simplicity and very important at work and home hobby. success in running this on linux ubuntu 6.06 will see a complete end to my microsloth experience. for those awesome programmers out there who work their magic with linux , i wonder if anyone has written an app that is a program and not a layer to implement these programs that keep us hanging by a thread to billy. viva the revolution

Wine does nothing on its own, you need to use Wine to run an exe file. Open a terminal and type "winecfg". This will give you the Wine settings program. If you want a file browser which you can use to browse for programs and run them type "wine file".

Also see http://winehq.atomnet.co.uk/faq.html and http://www.winehq.org

Wine is simple once you get the hang of it but it seems to take most people a while to get the jist of it.

Thanks for your email Peggy...

Wish I could understand maore of what you are talking about,
but for now I'll just take the pro-linux encouragement. Love your
"windoze95 crash dummy " and "microsloth" stuff. "Viva..." indeed.

Cheers

JF

On 5/13/07, peggy daly <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Question #5043 on gnome-panel in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+question/5043
>
> Status: Answered => Open
>
> peggy daly is still having a problem:
> gidday jeff , thanks for the input from yourself and others, i have
> still not been able to figure out my wine problem. i have reinstalled
> many times the wine by both the installer and also automatix2. i am
> assured at all times that it has been installed but the fake c drive
> that is all important does not appear to be in place also the fake win32
> folder which the dlls will need to go, and fake program file folder
> where the program will probably be installed to, do not appear to exist.
> i know where the folder for wine is and it is indeed in the desktop user
> area and when viewed from the tree there is very little in it. i have
> read the info files that are there along with it and have copied and
> pasted the command line at the terminal as directed but to no avail. i
> have been to wine hq and read different postings on wine installation
> but i cannot configure or make dependencies with what seems to be a
> layer not quite there. this problem may stem from installation programs
> not being able to overwrite existing files based on the "cup is full"
> scenario where files may not have been uninstalled completely yet not be
> complete in their structure when first installed and the installation
> software not overwriting because they are found during reinstall and
> deemed unnessesary to warrant overwriting because they already exist
> however corrupt or possibly incomplete they may be. my thoughts are that
> the problem may even be a single file but an all important one. i might
> just format my hard disk and start again from scratch. i will never give
> up on linux, it is too good. the small program i wish to install is very
> old and was written to run on the windoze95 crash dummy and will run
> happily on the later versions. it is a very powerful graphical interface
> from computer to cnc machine which is elegant in its simplicity and very
> important at work and home hobby. success in running this on linux
> ubuntu 6.06 will see a complete end to my microsloth experience. for
> those awesome programmers out there who work their magic with linux , i
> wonder if anyone has written an app that is a program and not a layer to
> implement these programs that keep us hanging by a thread to billy. viva
> the revolution
>

I recently installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my machine and I'm now dual booting with windows but when I copy and try to play my music from my windows partition I'm not able to play. I have have installed wine and that didn't seem to help. F1 F1 F1

Regards,
Sunguru

That's nothing to do with Wine "Sunguru".

Sunguru, please open a new question, this one was already closed by its original author.

Hi Peggy, I sympathise, because I'm having similar problems trying to extract and open an old favourite, Cadvance 6.5. It's a nice simple CAD program which I used for some considerable time on Windoze 3.1 through to XP. When I got so sick of being dictated to by Fürher Gates and switched to wonderful Ubuntu (now using Hardy Heron). The one program I missed deeply was Cadvance. QCad is a most suitable replacement and I have it loaded and working. Problem is that QCad uses .dxf files and all my old drawings are saved as .dwf files.
When I try to extract Cadvance (zip file) a window appears which suggests (I think) that The zipped Cadvance file is in C:\windows\temp, which doesn't exist so when type 'wine filename.exe' as Phillip Paquette said I don't get any response at all.
Can't find a converter for .dwf to .dxf, so must find a way to get Wine to handle the Cadvance problem.
Has anybody got any magic solution to offer? Preferably in Newbie-understandable form please!
Many thanks in anticipation.

RayArdia

Please make new question from here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
you will get better chance to get right answer on a fresh tagged "open" question.
Solved or very old question are usually not read from answering people.

Thank you