On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:08, barnabyr<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks very much for doing a bug report for me. > I have scoured other posts and some people have recommended using winetricks. How would I install this. I have looked at the instructions and sadly it doesn't make sense to me a linux newb. Could someone talk me through it with step by step instructions, please? The winetricks wiki page has most of the instructions... (Someone else can post more detailed instructions if they want...) > Am I right in assuming that when people talk about a prompt it's the same as the terminal? Short answer: Yes Long answer: The terminal is a program that runs text mode applications (a shell by default / in this case) and allows you to interact with it. The shell displays a prompt, which is where you type the commands. (The shell is actually quite powerful and can be scripted as well, see something like this if you are interested: http://partmaps.org/era/unix/shell.html (An ancient Bourne shell tutorial)). If you are using Linux, your default shell would probably be bash, which has some nice features to make life easier (Try tab after you started typing a filename / command name...) (Other terminals than gnome-terminal / konsole / xterm in Linux: Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 (F2, etc should work as well, X usually run on Ctrl-Alt-F7) on most distributions to get a text-mode terminal) Gert
