wineprefixcreate is launched automatically by wine(1) if you don't have an existing configuration. However, it can sometimes be useful to run it explicitly to create a different directory, or update an existing one.

--prefix directory

Create the specified directory (or update it if it exists already). If this option is not specified, wineprefixcreate defaults to the WINEPREFIX environment variable, or to $HOME/.wine if not set.

-h, --help

Display a usage message.

-q, --quiet

Don't display any status messages.

-w, --wait

Wait for wineserver to save everything before returning. This is necessary for instance if you are planning to rename the directory once created; otherwise a running server could still try to access the directory under its old name.

WINEPREFIX

If set, the content of this variable is taken as the name of the directory where wineprefixcreate stores its data (the default is $HOME/.wine). All wine processes using the same prefix share certain things like registry, shared memory and kernel objects. By setting WINEPREFIX to different values for different Wine processes, it is possible to run a number of truly independent Wine sessions.

~/.wine

Default location for the wine configuration data.