Chapter 6. Running Wine

Table of Contents
6.1. Basic usage: applications and control panel applets
6.2. How to run Wine
6.3. Explorer-like graphical Wine environments
6.4. Wine Command Line Options
6.5. wineserver Command Line Options
6.6. Setting Windows/DOS environment variables
6.7. Text mode programs (CUI: Console User Interface)

Written by John R. Sheets Modified by Andreas Mohr

Extended by Mike Hearn , Eric Pouech Modified by Andreas Mohr

This chapter will describe all aspects of running Wine, like e.g. basic Wine invocation, command line parameters of various Wine support programs etc.

This chapter will describe all aspects of running Wine, like e.g. basic Wine invocation, command line parameters of various Wine support programs etc.

6.1. Basic usage: applications and control panel applets

Assuming you are using a fake Windows installation, you install applications into Wine in the same way you would in Windows: by running the installer. You can just accept the defaults for where to install, most installers will default to "C:\Program Files", which is fine. If the application installer requests it, you may find that Wine creates icons on your desktop and in your app menu. If that happens, you can start the app by clicking on them.

The standard way to uninstall things is for the application to provide an uninstaller, usually registered with the "Add/Remove Programs" control panel applet. To access the Wine equivalent, run the uninstaller program (it is located in the programs/uninstaller/ directory in a Wine source directory) in a terminal:

        $ uninstaller
      

Some programs install associated control panel applets, examples of this would be Internet Explorer and QuickTime. You can access the Wine control panel by running in a terminal:

	 $ wine control
      

which will open a window with the installed control panel applets in it, as in Windows.

If the application doesn't install menu or desktop items, you'll need to run the app from the command line. Remembering where you installed to, something like:

	 $ wine "c:\program files\appname\appname.exe"
      

will probably do the trick. The path isn't case sensitive, but remember to include the double quotes. Some programs don't always use obvious naming for their directories and EXE files, so you might have to look inside the program files directory to see what it put where.