Wine on Ubuntu

[WorldIndustries]

I cannot get Wine to install on my Dapper version of Linux.

I followed all the steps here:

Wine HQ - Wine for Debian based distributions

I used the console method, and got no error messages... However I cannot find the program itsself. In the Synaptic Package Manager, it says it is installed.

Keep in mind, I don't use Linux much. I think this is the first program I've installed myself, I can't remember.

 

[macdude425]

Run whereis wine and see if anything pops up.

 

[WorldIndustries]

wine: /usr/bin/wine /usr/lib/wine /usr/bin/X11/wine /usr/share/wine /usr/share/man/man1/wine.1.gz

 

[savagenator]

type winefile in the terminal and you'll access your "C:" drive

 

[WorldIndustries]

I found winelauncher... Programs seem to work if I point them to open with this.

 

[WorldIndustries]

Another problem though, where the **** is drive_c located? I installed Windows Live Messenger and now I can't find it

 

[savagenator]

/home/<username>/.wine/drive_c

 

[WorldIndustries]

Found that... Now I can't get Windows Live Messenger to run. It says a bunch of files are missing.

 

[savagenator]

reinstall it. Wine is simple to use, its basically windows itegrated into linux, so if you type winefile, go to the directory you want, and do whatever, you'll be fine.

 

[WorldIndustries]

Reinstalled Live Messenger...

Still getting the error messages.

In debug log, it basically keeps repeating lines like this:

err:module:import_dll Library MSNCore.dll (which is needed by L"c:\\program files\\MSN messenger\msnmsgr.exe") not found