I tried your suggestion and met with varying results - but still reading and trying. I have two identical 160 GB HDD's - one with Windows installed and one with Ubuntu installed. Can you tell me if the .exe has to reside on the windows drive or on the Ubuntu drive? I have met with limited results in trying to do a wine Legacy6Setup.exe from the terminal - basically says not available... I 'think' I was able to install the Legacy program by putting it on my Ubuntu desktop, but when I tried to run it, I encountered an 'error 545 ' or some such number. I have been able to access the 'C:' drive, which I presume is on the Windows HDD, but when I try to open a file from Legacy (eg. Bob.fdb - which is my genealogy file), the only .fdb seen is one that is a sample.fdb that came with the program, which will not load, even though I can see teh fiel I want if I go to Windows. Maybe I'm expecting too much from Wine with my limited knowledge of Linux. What I had hoped to do was to use my Ubuntu to work with files and programs installed on my Windows HDD with the Ubuntu Wine package. Am I misinterpreting what it should/would do? Dan Kegel-2 wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:07 PM, sgtbob <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Dan - how do you run the application if I do not see an .exe file? >> This may sound dumber than a box of hammers, but I am unable to figure >> the operation out.... > > I remember well the first time I sat down in front of > a Macintosh (in 1982?). Couldn't run a damn thing. > Turned out the trick was to double-click. Boy was > I embarrassed, and mad... > > Anyway, go find the .exe with your usual linux desktop file manager. > Installing Wine should magically endow it with the ability to > run .exe's by double-clicking on them (or right-clicking on them and > picking "Run With..." /usr/bin/wine.) > > Alternately, find 'em on the commandline, and run them by putting > 'wine' in front of them. > - Dan > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Starting-WINE-tp16092257p16124876.html Sent from the Wine - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
