WINEBOOT(1)

📦 version 6.0, in ubuntu jammy

💖 WINEBOOT — the wineboot(1) glow-up 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about wineboot — it's a Wine Programs manual page and honestly? it's the backstage crew of your whole Wine setup. nobody claps for it, but without it nothing works. periodt.

✨ NAME ✨

wineboot — bestie, it does the Wine initialization, startup, and shutdown tasks. that's the whole job description. she's the stage manager 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

wineboot [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. just the command and whatever options you feel like throwing at her 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea 🍓: wineboot performs the initial creation and setup of a WINEPREFIX for wine(1). like, she's the one who builds the whole lil world your Windows apps are gonna live in. iconic behavior.

she can also perform a simulated reboot or shutdown to any applications running within the WINEPREFIX. yes girl, she can fake-restart your fake-Windows. the layers. the drama. the lore. 🌈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

one bullet per flag, no skips, no cuts, we're doing the full tour 🫶

  • -h, --help — Display help message. she'll tell you what's up, real quick, no judgment 💜
  • -e, --end-session — End the current session cleanly. nice and tidy, like folding your laundry before bed ✨
  • -f, --force — Force exit for processes that don't exit cleanly. some processes are dramatic and refuse to leave the group chat, so this one just removes them 💀
  • -i, --init — Initialize the WINEPREFIX. the birth of a whole new world, honestly, main character energy 👑
  • -k, --kill — Kill running processes without any cleanup. no goodbye, no closure, no text back 😭
  • -r, --restart — Restart only, don't do normal startup operations. just the restart, she's on a tight schedule 🦋
  • -s, --shutdown — Shutdown only, don't reboot. she's going to sleep and she is NOT getting back up 🌸
  • -u, --update — Update the WINEPREFIX. glow-up time, bestie 💅

✨ BUGS ✨

found a bug? Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker. do it, bestie, she deserves the feedback 🧚

✨ AVAILABILITY ✨

wineboot is part of the Wine distribution, which is available through WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters. that's the mothership, the HQ, the source of all things Wine 🍷

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

  • wine(1)
  • Wine documentation and support

go read those too, iykyk 🔥

no cap, wineboot is the unsung hero here. respect her. 🫶

and that's a wrap on the wineboot(1) page from Wine 6.0, dated November 2010 — old money, still slaying, still running the whole operation. mwah. bye bestie 💖✨🎀

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