Apps :: Wine Issues

Hello, I guess this would be my first post though I've lurked around in the forums for awhile to get most of my Linux related questions answered. I've been using Linux for a couple months, first Redhat 9, Knoppix, Mandriva 2006 and now DSL, still a general newbie though. I run DSL via Pendrive installation using a CompactFlash card USB reader and a 256mb CF that basically was no longer used in my digital camera.

Ok, enough introduction, my question(s?).

I've used Wine for quite a few games and apps in other distro's but the one from the Mydsl list is a bit older than the ones I'm use to I guess. Can't just type in "Wine appname.exe" in the console on this one apparently?

I would really rather switch to the one thats availble via "apt-get wine winesetuptk" but is it possible to save that to my  usb stick so it'll be there when i reboot or switch computers?

I would appreciate any help given on this topic.

Quote (JB4x4 @ Aug. 21 2006,17:01)

If you are using DSL 3.0, check out the testing repository located at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub....testing There is wine-0.9.18.unc.  The "unc" format will add itself to the filesystem using union file system, and let you call windoze programs with "wine winprog.exe".

Yes, I've tried that version, whenever I try to run something from it (in this example Starcraft) it tells me it can't find the ddraw.dll, which I know is in the Windows folder in the .Wine folder. So I figured thats the reason it was still in "testing"

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The wine UCI package?  You'll either have to add the binary path of it (probably /opt/wine... ) to your environment variable PATH in a startup script i.e. add "export PATH=$PATH:/opt/wine...blahblah" to ~/.bash_profile (or other startup script) -or- use a symlink in an known bin directory that points to the executable. i.e. ln -s /opt/wine...blahblah/bin/wine /usr/bin

Couple things,
1. Still Pretty new to Linux and am still shaking off Window simplicity, so you kind of lost past environment variable path :P.

2. I have no problems keep the UCI package from the MyDSL repository (in UCI category) after reboot, its just the fact that I don't know how to run it all that well due to the fact that I'm not use to the older version of Wine (as said above, won't just let me type in wine yadayada.exe in Shell). The only real success I've had with Wine in DSL was with the one retrieved from apt-get (once i switch oldstable to stable and update) I believe, however searching the forums I see there is no way to save things from apt-get for reinstallation upon reboot.

My thanks to both people who replied quite quickly. Any more suggestions would be helpful.