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Sunday, October 19, 2008

WINE (Wine is Not Emulator)

Wine is used for emulate windows environment in Linux, so we can running windows base program from linux. It will create folder which act like drive c.

Install WINE

If we have binary package or repository cd :

1. Open terminal

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

2. Open the directory which contain this binary

cd xxx(directory)

3. dpkg -i wine

Maybe it need binfmt-support install first

Install directly from main server

1. Make sure you connected to the internet

2. Open terminal

Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

3. apt-get install wine

Use WIne

Lets say we want to install windows program, ex winrar.exe

From terminal type sudo wine or wine

For running the program just type wine winrar or from Applications menu

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