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Join Date Oct Location U. Beans 4, Distro Ubuntu Linux User Ubuntu User Last. May 29th, 3. Re: How do I completely remove and reinstall Wine Thanks for the help. During the installation, I got a bunch of error during "winecfg".

May 29th, 4. Re: How do I completely remove and reinstall Wine Code:. May 29th, 5. Re: How do I completely remove and reinstall Wine Actually, that is just as normal as the preloader errors the two go hand in hand. Using the info on the Wine wiki page will make it go away. The installation will complete and present you with the Finish screen.

Leave the Run Notepad box checked and click Finish. This is one issue that can easily trip users up. Remember that Program Files sub-directory? Guess what? When you dive into more complicated applications, your results may vary. The best thing to do is to go back to the Wine application database, locate the app you want to install, click on it, and check the current app status.

You will find every app lists the version of Wine tested, if it installs, if it runs, and gives it a rating. There are:. Platinum : Applications which run flawlessly out of the box.

Gold : Applications which run with some modifications necessary. Silver : Applications which run with minor issues that do not affect usage. Even though not every Windows app will run under Wine, the collection of apps that do is seriously impressive. And considering most everything we do nowadays is handled within a web browser, with a little help from Wine, you should be covered from every angle. About Us. Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help. While it's working, Homebrew will display messages and progress bars on the Terminal to let you know what it's doing.

When it's done installing Wine, it will stop displaying messages and wait for you to type in a new command. When that happens, move on to the next step! To install a Windows program, first download the installer file: it should end with.

Remember the location you put it, and open up the Terminal again. Note: if you do not know what cd and ls are, you should learn how to use the command line before using Wine. Once you are in the correct directory, run the installer through Wine by running the following command in the Terminal:.

For example, if the installer file is named setup. A window will pop up with a regular graphical Windows installer. Click through it, and you're done! Run ls to see what programs you have installed. Pick a program, and enter its directory using cd. If you're having problems, try using tab autocomplete. There should be a file that ends in.

Type this into Terminal:. EXE , you would run:. The program will pop up in a new window, ready to use! Enjoy using Windows on your Mac, freely and legally! Many people want to be able to run Windows programs the same way they run other programs on the Mac: by clicking an icon in the Dock. Wine isn't specifically designed to support this, but with a little trickery, we can make it do what we want.

Note: Wine prints out error messages in the Terminal when something goes wrong. By launching Windows programs via a Dock icon, you are sidestepping the Terminal, which means that if something does go wrong and Wine has to quit, it will not be able to tell you what the problem was.

The first step to solving a problem is knowing what it is, so without running Wine from the Terminal, you won't be able to fix it, and neither will anyone else. Running from the Dock is fine as long as your program seems to be working correctly, but if it crashes, the first thing you should try is running it from the Terminal instead: it won't prevent the program from crashing, but it will give you some clues on how to fix the problem.

In order to launch a Windows program via the Dock, we're going to write an AppleScript that launches the program for us, and then put that AppleScript in the Dock. Essentially, we're writing a program ourselves! Don't worry, it's easy enough. Open up the Script Editor. You should see a window with a large area you can type in near the top: this is where you write your AppleScript.

In that area, type the following text:. You can see that you're simply telling the AppleScript to run a line of code in the Terminal: the same line of code that you could run to start your Windows program. Next, press the Compile button at the top of the window. The text should become colored to indicate that Script Editor understands what you wrote. You can also try pressing the Run button to run your script: it should open the Windows program successfully. Lastly, save your script.

You can give it whatever name you'd like, but be sure to select File Format: Application in the save options, and leave Startup Screen unchecked. Open up the Finder, go to where you saved your script, and drag that file to your Dock. It should stay there, just like a real application — because it is a real application!

However, all it does is run that launcher command for you, so you can move the application around, rename it, or even delete it, and it won't affect the Windows program that you're running.