On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:01, richag77 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is my first try using wine and I havent been able to get it to work. I've read the FAQ and that doesn't seem to cover the problem. > > I typed "wine appname.exe" > and got the message "could not exec wineserver" > Where from here? Did you compile wine yourself? If you, you might want to reinstall it using you favourite package manager.