5.2. Easy configuration helper programs

Managing the Wine configuration file settings can be a difficult task, sometimes too difficult for some people. That's why there are some helper applications for easily setting up an initial wine configuration file with useful default settings.

5.2.1. WineSetupTk

WineSetupTk is a graphical Wine configuration tool with incredibly easy handling of Wine configuration issues, to be used for configuring the Wine environment after having installed the Wine files. It has been written by CodeWeavers in 2000 as part of a host of other efforts to make Wine more desktop oriented.

If you're using Debian, simply install the winesetuptk package (as root):

  # apt-get install winesetuptk
        

If you're using another distribution, search for the package on the net.

5.2.2. wineinstall

wineinstall is a small configuration tool residing as tools/wineinstall in a Wine source code tree. It has been written to allow for an easy and complete compilation/installation of Wine source code for people who don't bother with reading heaps of very valuable and informative documentation ;-)

Once you have successfully extracted the Wine source code tree, change to the main directory of it and then run (as user):

  $ ./tools/wineinstall
        

Doing so will compile Wine, install Wine and configure the Wine environment (either by providing access to a Windows partition or by creating a properly configured no-windows directory environment).

5.2.3. winecfg

winecfg is a small graphical configuration tool residing as programs/winecfg in a Wine source code tree. It is a Winelib app making use of standard Win32 GUI controls to easily customize entries in a Wine configuration file.