installing and running wine

[donecweb]

I have been trying to get wine running on my laptop and can't get it to work. On the MEPIS Lovers forum someone placed a copy and paste line to be inserted into the terminal but for me it came back with could not find libraries. any help would be appreciated.

[SensoVision]

Don, before I can help you can you please post what you're trying to do exactly. Do you try to install pre-packaged Wine or try to compile it from the sources? Also can you please show what libraries are missing.

[donecweb]

LOL That's just it Denis I don't know what I'm doing. LOL

I will try and copy the error message I get and include it.

[SensoVision]

hehe
I'll be waiting to hear from you rest of details.

[Matt999]

   Here I am going to expose my extreme newbieism again...
I have successfully installed wine, at least so it says.  Now I can't find it.  I understand it is a layer in which to run windows programs on linux, at least my limited understanding of it.  Soooooo,  it is not an actual program to be run but rather something that runs in the background?  All I know, is that I cannot find it in the list of applications.

  I will research this further, but there doesn't seem to be alot of information on how to run or use it.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

[SensoVision]

HI Matt! sorry for delay in reply but as you know I wasn't able to appear on Internet for a while.

   Here I am going to expose my extreme newbieism again...
I have successfully installed wine, at least so it says.

you've asked good question and I don't think you're so newbie as you say since you mange to compile wine yourself

Soooooo,  it is not an actual program to be run but rather something that runs in the background?  All I know, is that I cannot find it in the list of applications.

you're right it doesn't have GUI interface(I know about Xwine which is free frontend for Wine but didn't tried it myself, there are also CrossOver Office and Cedega which are commercial deriviations of the Wine and they both have GUI) at least previous version didn't unless you install some frontend for it youself.
Basicly Wine is kind of program which supply necessary libraries and functions to programs written for Windows, so program could run in other OSs.
To start some Windows program in Wine you can simply cd to directory where your .exe file is stored and execute:
wine program.exe

BTW I should say that Wine getting better and better, I've manage to run few games using it on friend's PC and performance was awesome IMHO.

Let me know if you need more help with it, I'd be glad to provide you with more help if needed.