Wine HowTo

Before you install Wine make sure there is no previous Wine installation on your system.

Many Linux distributions come with a Wine package, but this is usually a very old and sometimes broken version, so it is better to uninstall the old version and install a newer one. Refer to your distributions documentation on how to remove packages.

YYYYMMDD is the version of wine in Year Month Day format.

1.     Download:

You can download the latest Wine version here or the latest source from here.

2.     Installation

o        From Source

Extract the downloaded file:

This will create a new directory, enter this directory, they type:

o        From Binary

§         RPM based

§         Debian

3.     Configuration

In order to run Wine needs some files and directories.
First you must create a virtual ('fake') windows drive
The following directories must exist in your $HOME directory:

.wine/

.wine/c_drive
.wine/c_drive/Windows
.wine/c_drive/Windows/Fonts
.wine/c_drive/Windows/Start Menu/Programs
.wine/c_drive/Windows/System
.wine/c_drive/Windows/System32
.wine/c_drive/Windows/Temp
.wine/c_drive/Program Files
.wine/c_drive/Program Files/Common Files

After this copy the following files from wine-YYYYMMDD/documentation/samples to $HOME/.wine/Windows:

system.ini
win.ini

All applications will be installed on this fake Windows drive. Refered to C: inside of Windows applications.

Wine also needs a configuration file. Copy the file config from wine-YYYYMMDD/documentation/samples to $HOME/.wine.

4.     The Wine configuration file

The config file is pretty self explanatory, just take a look at it. The only thing you probably have to change is the mountpoint of the cdrom drive.
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