Wine do not install or launch application from CD-ROM or disk

cd ~/.wine/dosdevices/

ls -l

winecfg > Drives > D: /media/user/disk > E: /media/user > Z: /media/user/disk/wine

Such set up solved the issue, but programs demanding CDs still won't launch.

Graphics > 150 dpi, Applications > Windows Version > choose, Desktop Integration

wine control

wine explorer

Microsoft Data Access components 2.5 SP1 (odbcjt32.dll) issue with ElsaWin. Download odbc32.dll and put into /home/user/.wine/drive_c/windows/syswow64/

ElsaWin failed to install on Wine. Can't create user. Failed to install from network on VirtualBox. Copy directly from network to vm from PC - fucking lunacy.

Microcat works on VirtualBox without CD, but on Wine could not locate it.

wine uninstaller

Z: /media/user/disk/wine

/home/user/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs

/home/user/.wine/drive_c/ProgramData/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/

Increase disk space on vm. Use partition tools.

VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB

Decrease size with partition tools, wipe data with zeros and 

VBoxManage modifyhd VM.vdi --compact

Wine Breeze Dark theme

winecfg => Desktop Integration => No Theme

wine regedit /path/to/file/wine-breeze-dark.reg

https://gist.github.com/Zeinok/ceaf6ff204792dde0ae31e0199d89398

winecfg => Desktop Integration => Item

Controls Background "0 0 0" // main window frame background color

Controls Text "120 120 120" // main menu bar text color

Copying, moving or migrating Wine to new PC

Install fresh winehq on fresh Kubuntu. Copy following folders from backup. Do not overwrite, skip.

~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs/

/home/user/.local/share/icons/

~/.wine/

Removing Wine completely from system after upgrade

sudo apt --purge remove wine wine64 libwine fonts-wine // no effect

rm -rfv $HOME/.wine // -v shows list of files and directories removed

rm -fv $HOME/.config/menus/applications-merged/*wine*

rm -rfv $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine

rm -fv $HOME/.local/share/desktop-directories/*wine*

rm -fv $HOME/.local/share/icons/*wine*

sudo apt remove winehq-devel

sudo apt remove winehq-stable

sudo apt remove winehq-staging

sudo apt remove libkwineffects14 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... Done

Reading state information... Done

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

  aha appmenu-gtk-module-common appmenu-gtk3-module clinfo fonts-noto-unhinted ibus-data kwin-data

  libappmenu-gtk3-parser0 libcolorcorrect5 libgps30t64 libibus-1.0-5 libkf5people-data libkf5people5

  libkf5peoplebackend5 libkf5peoplewidgets5 libkfontinst5 libkfontinstui5 libksgrd9 libkwinglutils14

  libnotificationmanager1 libplasma-geolocation-interface5 libprocessui9 libqaccessibilityclient-qt5-0

  libqalculate-data libqalculate22t64 libscim8v5 libtaskmanager6 libweather-ion7 libxres1 plasma-firewall

  plasma-workspace-data qml-module-org-kde-kholidays qml-module-org-kde-pipewire qml-module-org-kde-solid

  vulkan-tools wayland-utils

Do you get blue screen with login, password and large keyboard?

Ctrl + Alt + F3, login and sudo apt reinstall plasma-desktop

Ctrl + Alt + F2 to return to KDE

wine public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY

GPG error: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease:  The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F solution in the end:

Wine Windows emulator applications locations

Ctrl + Alt + T

ls -a

wine uninstaller

sudo find -xdev -name targetname*

/home/user/.local/share/

/home/user/.local/share/icons/hicolor/

/home/user/.wine/drive_c/users/user/AppData/Roaming/Microsoft/Windows/Start Menu/Programs/

Change font size and Wine theme

winecfg

Graphics => Screen Resolution => 160 dpi

wine regedit

HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG => Software => Fonts

LogPixels => 160 

Change window background to gray in wine

Desktop Integration => Item => Choose items

HKEY_CURRENT_USER => Control Panel => Colors

Window 120 120 120

Uninstall a program installed with Wine

wine --version

winecfg

wine control

wine explorer

wine program.exe

wine uninstaller

wine folder not found after install wine /home/user/.wine/

wine --version

winecfg

wine control

wine explorer

wine program.exe