Help regarding wine.

ashok.g · 12-17-2009, 07:15 AM

Hello folks,
I know that wine can be used to run Windows libraries on Linux or Unix environments. I had linux Advanced Server version 4. Can you tell me where to download the wine for my kernel version and step by step procedure to install wine on my system?

pixellany · 12-17-2009, 07:32 AM

I would assume that WINE is available in your repositories (using the package manager). If not, you can get it directly from the WINE website. (Where you will also find instructions.)

You might also want to look at CrossOver. This is the commercial (paid) version of WINE and is very user-friendly. They have a free trial period.

TITiAN · 12-17-2009, 08:16 AM

The Wine website is http://www.winehq.org/.

And wine isn't bound to single kernel versions, but I think a current wine needs certain minimum version numbers of system libraries (such as glibc). If you miss something like that, I think you will be told when you try to install Wine.

Have fun.

lazlow · 12-17-2009, 11:57 AM

Wine is in the epel repo. Assuming you are using RHEL4, I hope you understand that installing almost any package will require(for dependencies) having access to the RH base repos (paid subscription).

TITiAN · 12-17-2009, 06:17 PM

The profile corner in your post says you use CentOS. Isn't that RedHat without commercial stuff? I think you can add repos from CentOS to RHEL if you don't want to (or can't) use the paid repos, but I'm not sure here. (It might have been "PC Linux OS" which is a RHEL clone - I'm not sure).