The forum

How to add a program already installed?

with a PoL profile?

Author Replies
gmureddu Sunday 3 March 2013 at 4:31
gmuredduAnonymous

Hi all... I'm wondering how would you go about to add a program which I have already installed with the distro's native Wine, only to a PoL bottle with its corresponding profile, is it possible? If so how? The program I'm specifically talking about is StarCraft II, I don't feel like downloading the whole 12 gigs again, when I already have it ;)

Is it possible to "fool" PoL with symlinks to the actual program's files?

TIA!
petch Sunday 3 March 2013 at 10:21
petch

Hi,
That's not supported(*), but you can probably come up with something that works...

If you create a new virtual drive in PoL (Configure button > New button (bottom left) > 32bit, System, name it say PlainWine), and then have a look at it in ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/PlainWine, you may notice that it looks a lot like ~/.wine, with a few extra files, probably playonlinux.cfg and playonlinux.log.
At that point you have multiple choices, copying or moving Wine files over the files of PoL virtual drive, or symlinking ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/PlainWine to ~/.wine; Just make sure you preserve the extra files that PoL needs.
Once that's done you can manually create shortcuts to the programs you want to start from PoL interface: Configure button > (select virtual drive) > General tab > "Create a new shortcuts from this virtual harddrive" button)

(*). Meaning:
- if it breaks you can keep the pieces.
- the behavior of PoL with state it didn't setup itself may change in the future.

Edited by petch

This site allows content generated by members, and we promptly remove any content that infringes copyright according to our Terms of Service. To report copyright infringement, please send a notice to dmcayonlinux.com