Wine in OPensuse

After having tried installing Wine in PClinux (failure), and Mandriva 2008 (success), I tried doing the same in Opensuse.
Of the three, the installation was the briefest in Opensuse. Just over 8 MB was downloaded. Post download, the entire integration took less than 5 mins. BUT, Wine was no where to be seen. It did not mark its presence on the desktop or the menu. To find out where the program files had ended up, I had to relaunch the application management routine. There the path /usr/bin/wine was revealed. I double clicked on a shell script, winecfg.sh. It ran successfully, so the installation was not botched up. But since there seems to be no easy way to run a windows application (right clicking on an exe did not produce the Run in Wine option), it is hard not to consider this a failure.

The work around is to use the Open with option while right clicking on the exe file. Then browse to /usr/bin/wine and select the "always use this application " option. The next time an exe is clicked, Wine will do the necessary.