Wine not seen in applications menu. Please help.

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schnappi
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Wine not seen in applications menu. Please help.

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ghostbsd-pc ~> pkg search wine
paritwine-0.1_2 Glue library between PARI/GP and other mathematics libraries
py39-twine-4.0.1 Collection of utilities for interacting with PyPI
wine-7.0.1,1 Microsoft Windows compatibility environment
wine-devel-7.22,1 Microsoft Windows compatibility environment
wine-gecko-2.47.2 Gecko Layout Engine for Wine (HTML support)
wine-gecko-devel-2.47.3 Gecko Layout Engine for Wine development branch (HTML support)
wine-mono-7.0.0 Mono .NET implementation for Wine
wine-mono-devel-7.4.0 Mono .NET implementation for Wine development branch
wine-proton-7.0.5 Wine with a bit of extra spice
winetricks-20220411 Easy way to work around problems in Wine
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neville
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Re: Wine not seen in applications menu. Please help.

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Welcome to GhostBSD!
By default wine in FreeBSD and therefore GhostBSD is command line only. There used to be a wine gui called playonbsd but that is no longer available. You can try suyimazu
schnappi
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Re: Wine not seen in applications menu. Please help.

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Thx. Then how to launch winetricks etc?
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Re: Wine not seen in applications menu. Please help.

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As Nevile recommended I would recommend using suyimazu which will make it easier to use wine.
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