wine doesn't work at all

Asked by memetali

After upgrading to 9.10 I never could get wine working. I waited for some time, but nothing changed. I tried all the available versions. I get the wine 1.2 beta version from repository http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu but it also didn't work. There is no hints that I can mention here. I click on a .exe extension file which use to be installed before, but nothing happens. Just the circle turns for a while and than nothing happens. I really don't have any other information to give.

I really need the wine for some applications, if anyone can provide any information, I would be glad.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Did you check the appdb to make sure your app is compatible?

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Christian Dannie Storgaard (cybolic) said :
#2

It sounds like you've only tried actually double clicking the executable.
Have you tried running it through the terminal, as in:
wine /path/to/executable.exe

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memetali (ma-alabora) said :
#3

Dear actionparsnip,
As I mentioned in my post, all the .exe files were being opened before. At this moment I don't have a problem with applications compatibility, I even cannot get into that stage, because when I try to start an .exe, nothing happens for me.

Dear Christian,
As I do understand from "wine /path/to/executable.exe" command I entered the following command

memetali@memetali-laptop:~$ wine /home/memetali/.wine/drive_c/Home_Planner/IKEA Home Planner.exe

Then I got the following error message:

err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 5
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/memetali', starting in the Windows directory.
wine: cannot find '/home/memetali/.wine/drive_c/Home_Planner/IKEA'

It may look dump and funny but I also tried the command like this:

memetali@memetali-laptop:~$ wine path/to/home/memetali/.wine/drive_c/Home_Planner/IKEA Home Planner.exe
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows" could not be created, error 5
err:process:init_windows_dirs directory L"C:\\windows\\system32" could not be created, error 3
Warning: could not find DOS drive for current working directory '/home/memetali', starting in the Windows directory.
wine: cannot find 'path/to/home/memetali/.wine/drive_c/Home_Planner/IKEA'
memetali@memetali-laptop:~$

And at the end I copied the executable on to the desktop and follow the same steps, all I got was the same error messages.

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said :
#4

Perhaps you should "test" if this is some sort of configuration problem.

Below I will outline the process to move your settings/installed programs to a different directory, once this is done open the "winecfg" program to recreate default settings, then try installing one of your programs again.

$ cd ~
$ mv .wine wine_backup
$ winecfg

Then try double clicking one of your install EXE files again and see if it works. If it does, then the problem was a wine setting rather then the program itself.

NOTE - ~/wine_backup contains any of your previously installed programs, if the test fails you can undo the change using:

$ cd ~
$ mv wine_backup .wine

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memetali (ma-alabora) said :
#5

Thank you ZykoticK9, wine works back...