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I installed Wine using synaptic but when I write "Wine" in Launcher the only results are:

  1. Configure Wine

  2. Uninstall Wine Software

  3. Winetricks

Is this normal? Shouldn't there be an instance of Wine?

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That is the normal behaviour for about as long as I have used Wine (~4 years). Wine does not do anything by itself, it is always used for running something else:

$ wine
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...]   Run the specified program
       wine --help                   Display this help and exit
       wine --version                Output version information and exit

Programs installed in Wine usually get their own launchers.

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  • N.B. It does (in versions I have used) also come with a file browser, wordpad, a mines game and a weird implementation of Internet Explorer using Gecko.
    – Wilf
    Nov 1, 2014 at 21:00
  • @Wilf Never saw the Mines game, but I have seen the others. Especially the hated Notepad, which often took over file associations of text files. :(
    – muru
    Nov 1, 2014 at 21:26
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    @muru you can open it using winemine. I also think there is some other stuff for building windows packages for Linux.
    – Wilf
    Nov 1, 2014 at 21:30

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