Wine Registry Help Needed

[matthurne]

To someone who knows the answer, this is a simple question, but to me...well I'm starting to get pissed at the Wine documentation. When I run winecheck, I get the following:
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This script verifies the configuration of the whole Wine environment.
Note that this is an ALPHA version, and thus it doesn't catch all problems !
The results of the checks are printed on the right side:
OK - test passed without problems.
NOTICE - Not a problem but something for the user to be aware of.
SUSPICIOUS - potentially problematic. You might want to look into that.
BAD - This is a problem, and it leads to configuration score penalty.
CRITICAL - A critical problem which can easily lead to malfunction.
FAILED - This problem leads to Wine failure almost certainly.

The result will be printed as a percentage score indicating config completeness.


------------------------- checking miscellaneous stuff -------------------------
001. Checking for root user... OK.

--------------------------- checking Wine base files ---------------------------
002. Checking for file "wine"... OK.
003. Checking for correct .so lib config (please wait)... OK.

----------------------------- checking config file -----------------------------
004. Checking config file access... OK.

>>> Checking drive A settings:
005. Checking Path option... OK.
006. Checking Type option... OK.
007. Checking device /dev/fd0... OK.
008. Checking Filesystem option... OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive C settings:
009. Checking Path option... OK.
010. Checking Type option... OK.
011. Checking Filesystem option... OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive D settings:
012. Checking Path option... OK.
013. Checking Type option... OK.
014. Checking device /dev/scd0... OK.
015. Checking Filesystem option... OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive E settings:
016. Checking Path option... OK.
017. Checking Type option... OK.
018. Checking device /dev/hdd... OK.
019. Checking Filesystem option... OK.
--> OK.

>>> Checking drive F settings:
020. Checking Path option... OK.
021. Checking Type option... OK.
022. Checking Filesystem option... OK.
--> OK.

--------------------- checking system devices used by Wine ---------------------
023. Checking sound device /dev/dsp... OK.
024. Checking audio mixer device /dev/mixer... OK.
025. Checking MIDI sequencer device /dev/sequencer... OK.

----------------------- checking registry configuration ------------------------
026. Checking availability of winedefault.reg entries... CRITICAL (entry "SHAREDMEMLOCATION" not found in system.reg registry file).
- ADVICE: file winedefault.reg, the most basic wine registry environment, doesn't seem to have been applied using regedit.
027. Checking availability of windows registry entries... NOTICE (entry "Default Taskbar" not found).
- ADVICE: A Windows registry does not seem to have been added to Wine as this typical Windows registry entry does not exist in Wine's registry. A complete original Windows registry entry set will *not* be available with a no-windows install. Usually this will present no problem in running applications although this can affect newer programs. Feel free to ignore this message in case you do use a Windows registry, but have the SaveOnlyUpdatedKeys config setting set to N..

27 tests. 0 suspicious, 0 bad, 1 critical, 0 failed.
Wine configuration correctness score: 85.00%

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My question is this...how do I fix this?

[hard candy]

I use this winesetuptk to set up wine. It is so much easier. I think the problem is you need a wine registry directory in the /home/root or user directory also.

[matthurne]

Here are the *.reg files found by searching my home folder:

~/.wine/system.reg
~/.wine/userdef.reg
~/.wine/user.reg
~/.wine/winedefault.reg

So nothing in my fake Windows folder.

I also searched in /etc because I read this on WineHQ:

" FIXME: global configuration currently not implemented. In addition to these files, Wine can also optionally load from global registry files residing in the same directory as the global wine.conf (i.e. /usr/local/etc if you compiled from source)."

I didn't find anything, but it said its optional so I'm not too worried about that.

I'll go ahead and mess with winesetuptk and post back if I get a fix...any more suggestions would be well appreciated!

[matthurne]

Well after finally getting the source for winesetuptk compiled and installed, I ran it and it took care of the registry files for me. Winecheck now gives me a 100% score. Thanks for the suggestion hard candy!