2008/5/12 looki <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx>: > id like to have a single wine install wich uses another folder then ~/.wine. > so i want it not to share this folder with my common wine installation. > any ideas? You can use any number of different Wine fake-windows folders (.wine or whatever). In fact, it's a good way to get tricky applications to work. Note that you need to fiddle with the command line a bit. Doing this will set up a separate fake-Windows called .wine2 : export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine2 wineprefixcreate You need to make sure your apps inside .wine2 are started with $WINEPREFIX set to .wine2 . (An automated version of this is how Crossover does "wine bottles" to keep apps separated.) You don't need to do this normally - but when a particular app needs fiddly settings, or Wine pretending to be a different version of Windows or something, it's very useful. - d.
