On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:53 PM, chs1010 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > alright, i think i installed wine on my new aspire one, the problem is, i used the root, yum wine way, is this how you install it? > Should work, might not be a very up-to-date version... You can check the version with wine --version The latest version is 1.12 > also, i want to make sure it does work with the aspire one (that uses linpus, fedora based)? > > and then after i installed wine, i tried to install a game, which i then tried to load up and it didnt work, is there a special way of installing games through wine? > http://appdb.winehq.org/ has instructions for specific applications Note: Do not run Wine as root. (You should only need root for installing Wine itself not for installing any applications on it) Wine will install applications to the hidden ".wine" directory under your home directory. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ has some general info, you probably want to read this: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-312130506d4585c973df1d88538b11945193c41d Another quick introduction: http://wiki.winehq.org/HowTo
