tried to do a soft patch and thisis what hapened [trevor@trevor ~]$ ls -s /usr/local/bin wine ls: cannot access wine: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin: total 4120 8 function_grep.pl 28 wine-pthread 64 winegcc 4 msiexec 4 wineboot 64 winemaker 4 notepad 4 winebrowser 4 winemine 4 progman 216 winebuild 4 winepath 4 regedit 4 winecfg 4 wineprefixcreate 4 regsvr32 4 wineconsole 2144 wineserver 4 uninstaller 0 winecpp 8 wineshelllink 544 widl 4 winedbg 4 winhelp 16 wine 304 winedump 96 wmc 68 wine-kthread 4 winefile 464 wrc 32 wine-preloader 0 wineg++ [trevor@trevor ~]$ ls -s /usr/bin/wine /usr/local/bin/wine ls: cannot access /usr/bin/wine: No such file or directory 16 /usr/local/bin/wine put /usr/local/bin in the path statement in /etc/profile and this is the result bash: wine: command not found this is the path statement revised # /etc/profile # export PATH="/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/local/bin" If I can get wine recognized like I can see it everything will work.