http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19074
--- Comment #8 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2009-06-26 10:58:57 --- (In reply to comment #7)
(In reply to comment #6)
Windows error message unfortunately appears just as unhelpful (not telling you "wrong directory")
This "wrong directory" thing is completely misleading. Try for instance run 'foobar' from an xterm, you will get "command not found".
And if you're running on Ubuntu/OpenSuse/others with 'command-not-found' installed (it is by default), most missing packages will give you helpful advice: http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/command-not-found
e.g.,: $ evolution The program ‘evolution’ can be found in the following package: * evolution [ path: /usr/bin/evolution, repository: zypp (OSS_11.1_Factory) ] Try: sudo zypper install evolution bash: evolution: command not found
Why Wine error message should look differently?
Wine is inherently a different program than most. It's not a pure native unix program, and doesn't behave like one for many other things. A simple message like 'the specified program was not found in the current directory or system path', as Scott suggested, gives the user an idea of what's wrong, before filing invalid bugs about it (we've seen a few here before, and the forums get it quite a bit).