Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:16 -0600, bigseb wrote: > > > I read somewhere that in order for a program to work properly in Wine it should be installed in a clean enviroment, something along the lines of one software conflicting with anothers drivers/runtime/apps/etc. Is this true? Does this mean that I can only have one program installed with Wine at a time? > > > > Can one not create several 'fresh enviroments'? > > > > > Yes, you can create as many environments, known as 'prefixes' as you > want: > > cd $HOME > mkdir .wine_myapp > export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_myapp" > # now install and run your application > > After that you might find it worthwhile to use a wrapper script to run > the app. Here's a howto: > http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/wine/launcher_script.html > > > Martin Thanks, Martin. I am not very terminal fluent so: cd $HOME ----> change to home directory mkdir .wine_myapp -----> create a dir in home folder with apps name export WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine_myapp" ----> don't know what this does :( I'll check out the link, in the meantime what does a wrapper script do?
