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giffmemana Tuesday 29 September 2015 at 19:16

I am using Playonlinux and im trying to use winetricks to install a dll in one of my POL prefixes. I do:

WINEPREFIX=/home/user/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/giffmegames/ winetricks

and get

wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%' returned empty string

How do I fix this ?

I tried reading about it online nothing I did helped. I am also worried I could have messed my permissions up (by watching the tutorials) as I am not an experienced user. Any way to check if they are okay ?

Edited by giffmemana

petch Wednesday 30 September 2015 at 0:16

petch

Hi,

To use a Wine prefix managed by PlayOnLinux/PlayOnMac you have to set $WINEPREFIX, and also $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH as soon as you're not using your system Wine.

Or use Configure button > (select virtual drive) > Miscellaneous tab > "Open a shell in this virtual drive" button

and get a terminal with the right environment already setup by PlayOnLinux.

^{My scripts wiki: https://github.com/petchema/playonlinux/wiki}

^{GOGmix: https://www.gog.com/en/mix/playonlinux_install_scripts}

giffmemana Wednesday 30 September 2015 at 7:27

giffmemana

Hey thanks for the help. But im not very good with linux. What do I have to do after I "Open a shell in this virtual drive" ?

petch Wednesday 30 September 2015 at 7:46

petch

Type winetricks. But what do you want to install with winetricks by the way? That's not what we support anymore for installing native components.

^{My scripts wiki: https://github.com/petchema/playonlinux/wiki}

^{GOGmix: https://www.gog.com/en/mix/playonlinux_install_scripts}

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