Wine Not Working ! Error : Invalid directory prefix32 in WINEPREFIX: not an absolute path

Question

I am using 64-Bit Linux, and when I Try to open an exe file from command line by the command wine somefile.exe I get an error which says:

wine: invalid directory prefix32 in WINEPREFIX: not an absolute path

Now, I tried to Debug that. In my root/ directory, there is already a folder called prefix32/ which contains these files:

dosdevices  drive_c  system.reg  userdef.reg  user.reg

Moreover, I also went to my Wine Folder by root/.wine Which contains files

dosdevices  drive_c  system.reg  userdef.reg  user.reg  winetricks.log

I also checked nano cat /etc/environment but it is currently empty. Now, I am actually clueless about how to debug this.

Running echo $WINEPREFIX gives me prefix32.

Answer 1

The exact error is self-explanatory: the WINEPREFIX environment variable needs to be an absolute path to the wine prefix.

Based on your echo $WINEPREFIX, it is only set to prefix32 which is going to be a relative path to your current directory.

If you know that your wine prefix is always going to be prefix32 then edit your ~/.bashrc to do this at the end:

export WINEPREFIX="/home/$USER/prefix32"

If you only need it to use that prefix temporarily, then put it in front of your wine command:

WINEPREFIX=/home/$USER/prefix32 wine somefile.exe