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The background:

I have some old Windows Applications that I need to get running in a Wine environment on Linux. I have got to the point where I can start the application and it runs fine. However I can only run one copy of the application at a time.

The Problem:

In Windows, I can run multiple copies of these applications by creating 'instances' of them. e.g. I create a shortcut, then right click > properties and in the target window I add an instance name to the end. (e.g. c:\folder\myApp.exe test1 creates an instance called test1).

In the background each instance creates it's own entries in the windows registry which I guess allows it to function independently of the main application.

Is there a way of doing something similar in Linux?

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Apparently the answer is to create a new WINEPREFIX.

export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-new
wine winecfg 

You can then reference the application using that prefix:

WINEPREFIX="~/.wine-new" wine myapp.exe
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  • Why not just wine myapp.exe test1? Commented Feb 5, 2016 at 8:33
  • I tried that, but it doesn't appear to work. WINEPREFIX="~/.wine" wine myapp.exe test1. Without test1, the app opens. With test1, nothing. Commented Feb 5, 2016 at 8:47

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