shade wrote: > I am new to linux, and new to wine, and think I may have actually stepped a little out of my depth by jumping into it without a little more coding/programming experience. I am running Kubuntu Hardy, and have encountered a serious problem with wine 1.1.7, in that it doesn't want to function. If I click on exe files, it will open a tab on the taskbar, show activity, then kill the tab. I've tried to run winecfg, and it does the same thing, and when I run it from a terminal, it gives me the following: > > ... > > Is it something that perhaps I have done? Did I make a mistake somewhere along the way? Any help will be appreciated, as I'm not even sure where to start at this point. Try to remove/rename ~/.wine directory first: Code: mv ~/.wine ~/.wine-old If that won't help, then you probably have installed/configured printer that Wine doesn't like for some reason. Try removing this printer.