what is wine?

it might sound idiotic, but honestly, i don't what it is and as to this site, it is linked to a lot of very good software.

what is it and how do i get/use it?

many thanks.

 

wine is application to run software for Windows. Generally it is doing good job

 

well thanks. and how do i use it or how do i get it? i heard that it's really great so im thinking it must be.

 

It is great. But for manuals and how-to will be much better to send you to Google or http://www.winehq.org/ - there is enough info to learn how to use it...

 

Hi,
I tryed to install wine but after my AAO became strange...
It run slowly, freezed up a couple of times. And this was not when I was using wine.
Even if I was only surfing the web it whoul be very slow and freezing for 1 or 2 secs ...
I removed it and it imediatly return to is old form, everything nice and fast. :s
Did I did anything wrong?
I followed a topic here in the forum.

Thankx,
Alex

 

Are you sure wine is not working in background??

Try command top in console - this will show you all application running and taking CPU resources. On top of this list you will have application with highest CPU usage...

If wine is on this list somehow try command ps ax in terminal - this will show you list of all running processes...

If wine is active try in terminal kill -9 xxxxx where xxxxx you must change with right pid number from 1-st column... This will kill wine process and PC should start work normally.

You did not do anything wrong - wine is fussy sometimes and does not want to close properly...

 

While we're on the subject of Wine, I installed it on my AAO but I am not familiar with how to use it. If I want to run a windows app do I need to run it within wine or does Linux know to use wine to run it?

 

Not really. Wine is like emulator of M$ Windows under Linux. You have to open Wine first, install application and use it always with Wine switched on. Probably there is a way of doing file association with certain type of files, but I never did that before. There was no need as I'm using both systems on my PC...

 

To run an executable, just do

wine application.exe

If it's an installation (e.g. setup.exe), then this will dump stuff in subdirectories of
~/.wine/drive_c/

you can get a command prompt with
wineconsole cmd

So, you can either run the installed executable from there, or run it with
wine "C:/path to executable", or
if you're running the linpus advanced desktop the right clicking and going to "other" seems to list all the installations.

Best -Duncan.

 

hi, very new to linux, i have installed wine via the package manager, so what i do i order to sue wine?

thanks

 

You need a command prompt, click on
Files->My Documents->File->Terminal
and try the commands I've listed in the previous post.
(But be warned, some apps take some tinkering to get working, but you might be lucky, maybe
check the application database to see if it's known if your app will work http://appdb.winehq.org/)
-Duncan.

 

Wine is NOT an emulator (that's btw it's name )! Anyway... You don't have to "open Wine first" like a virtual machine, just use the command

Code:

wine your_programm.exe

to start your windows application with wine unter linux.

You could also just doubleclick on the exe, that's mostly working (never tried it with linpus linux).

Just keep in mind that wine is still in development and not everything program/game is fully working.

 

True But it's only it's name - function is still obvious

In case of running wine via command:

Code:

wine application.exe

I had couple of problems with this. That's why I decided to keep Windows always on my PCs. Sometimes code mentioned above is not working. Maybe in the newest versions this problem does not exist but I had no chance to test it as I'm using both systems...

 

There are plenty of applications that don't work with wine (and plenty that do), and many that are only partially working. IMHO that it works at all is something of a modern miracle It's not an emulator for technical reasons (like, conceptually an emulator sits between an application and a host platform and this isn't how wine works since the binaries objects run directly on the hardware - so there is no performance hit that is associated with emulation). If your app works great - If not, probably best to stay with windows (unless you like tinkering).

Best -Duncan