ChangeLog:
- Add note about not using pre-existing windows install.
- Point out that many packages already create the fake windows drive and
configuration file for you.
- State that the RPM must be installed as root
- New wine releases are always better.
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<p>Before you install Wine make sure there is no previous Wine installation
on your system.</p>
-<p>Many Linux distributions come with a Wine package, but this is usually a
-very old and sometimes broken version, so it is better to uninstall the old
+<p>Many Linux distributions come with a Wine package, but this is usually an
+old and sometimes broken version, so it is better to uninstall the old
version and install a newer one. Refer to your distributions documentation
on how to remove packages.</p>
-<p>YYYYMMDD is the version of wine in Year Month Day format.</p>
+<p>YYYYMMDD is the version of wine in Year Month Day format. Wine
+releases are generally not subject to QA, older releases are not
+really any more stable so you should always install the very latest
+one. When upgrades come out, try them, normally they will be fine but
+occasionally an update may break your application. If that happens,
+just downgrade again. </p>
<ol>
<li><p><b>Download:</b></p>
@@ -34,6 +39,12 @@
<span class=inverse>./tools/wineinstall</span>
</td></tr>
</table>
+ When it asks, create a "no-windows" install. Although the
+ idea of reusing an existing Windows installation from another
+ drive may sound tempting, in general there is too much
+ garbage on these setups and they can destabilize Wine. It's
+ better to create a fake windows drive then install your
+ applications into it.
</li>
<li><p><b>From Binary</b></p>
@@ -41,7 +52,7 @@
<ul>
<li><p>RPM based</p>
<table width="300" border=0 cellpadding=10><tr><td class=black>
- <span class=inverse>rpm -i wine-YYYYMMDD-i386.rpm</span>
+ <span class=inverse>rpm -iv wine-YYYYMMDD-i386.rpm (as root)</span>
</td></tr>
</table>
</li>
@@ -58,9 +69,23 @@
<li><p><b>Configuration</b></p>
- <p>In order to run Wine needs some files and directories.<br>
- First you must create a virtual ('fake') windows drive<br>
- The following directories must exist in your $HOME directory:</p>
+ <p>In order to run Wine needs some files and directories.<br> You
+ need at least a fake windows drive and config file, however the
+ source code wineinstall program, as well as most binary packages,
+ will have already done this for you. To check, try running
+ the <b>notepad</b> program. Some programs are built into wine,
+ examples are "notepad", "control", "wcmd", "winemine" and so
+ on. You can normally run these just by typing in their names from
+ the command line. For other programs, you need to type "wine programname.exe".</p>
+
+ <p>In particular, the source .tar.gz file, and the Red Hat RPMs will set it all up for you.
+ After installing, just start notepad and play with it. In particular, check the File | Open
+ dialog box, to make sure you can access your favourite drives. This should work fine, but if not
+ try altering the drive mappings in the config file.</p>
+
+ <p>If notepad doesn't work for you, you may need
+ to create these directories yourself. To do that, create the
+ following directories in your home directory:</p>
<p>.wine/
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