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Alexander Nicolaysen Sørnes fda353c433 Update the generic help page, by removing references to the wine config file
and adding some new tips. Remove references to winecheck, this was removed from wine some years ago and
remove specific 'where to get help' documentation and instead forward users to the Winehq 'getting help'
page so there is one location for this information.
2006-12-02 17:28:57 +00:00

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<!--TITLE: General help on running appliations under Wine -->
This is meant as generic instructions in case an AppDB entry
for a certain program doesn't exist.
<ol>
<li> Make sure your Wine release is recent.</li><p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/download"> Official WineHQ builds</a>
for Linux Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware and FreeBSD, hosted by
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241">SourceForge.net</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/cvs">Official WineHQ Source</a> for information on how to
build and install Wine via source read over the
<a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/howto"> Wine HowTo</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>
<li> Run your program</li><p>
<li> If it gives an error about missing files, or does not start at all, try running it from the directory where it was installed.</li><p>
<li> Many newer games contain copy protection, which is often not supported in Wine. Cracks are available from sites such as <a href="http://www.megagames.com/trainers.html" target="_blank">MegaGames</a>.</li><p>
<li> In case of failure, try different builtin, native DLL settings:
Run Wine with --debugmsg +loaddll to find out which
DLLs are loaded as native or builtin.
Then make sure appropriate native versions are in the
c:\windows\system32 directory as configured in Winecfg&#8217;s DLL overrides tab. There are four options you can choose from when setting
dll overrides.</li><p>
<pre>
(native, builtin)
(builtin, native)
(native)
(builtin)
</pre>
<li> In case of persisting failure, you may want to read over the
<a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/documentation">Wine Documentation</a>
and you may also want to read the
<a href="http://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wine-faq/index">Wine FAQ</a>.</li><p>
<li> The Wine <a href="http://winehq.org/site/getting_help">'Getting Help'</a> page shows the current methods of getting help with Wine.</li><p>
<li> If you have more questions, please contact us
at <a href="mailto:appdb@winehq.org">appdb@winehq.org</a>.</li></p>
</ol>
<p>&nbsp;</p>