Submitted by ggarron on Sat, 03/17/2007 - 13:06
Sometimes, it is really needed to run some windows software on your Linux machines, there are different ways to do this, one of them is using wine.
We will see here to do it, running at the end of the example the famous putty.exe file
We will see here how to do it for Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora
We first need to install the file.
** Note: If you have Debian or a Based on Debian Distro like Ubuntu or Knoppix you can install this repo to your apt sources.list file, this is only if do not want to use your own distro's package for wine. http://www.winehq.com/site/download-deb
For Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install wine
- You need to have universe repo on in your /etc/apt/sources.list file this is part of mine
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deb http://bo.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse deb-src http://bo.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe multiverse |
For Fedora
yum install wine
- You will need to have your extras repos on in your /etc/yum.d/ directory
For Debian
apt-get install wine
- Just the standard stable/main repo is needed
Here is the output I got in my ubuntu Dapper
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user@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wine Password: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: msttcorefonts The following NEW packages will be installed: wine 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 74 not upgraded. Need to get 8785kB of archives. After unpacking 41.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://bo.archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe wine 0.9.9-0ubuntu2 [8785kB] Fetched 8785kB in 6m4s (24.1kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package wine. (Reading database ... 82184 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking wine (from .../wine_0.9.9-0ubuntu2_i386.deb) ... Setting up wine (0.9.9-0ubuntu2) ... |
After this you have wine installed but not configured, run:
wine
and it will configure itself
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user@ubuntu:/usr/lib/wine$ wine wine: creating configuration directory '/home/ggarron/.wine'... err:advpack:create_tmp_ini_file Unable to create temp ini file err:advpack:create_tmp_ini_file Unable to create temp ini file wine: '/home/ggarron/.wine' created successfully. Wine 0.9.9 Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program wine --help Display this help and exit wine --version Output version information and exit |
Now our wine is ready tu run windows applications if you check your $HOME/.wine directory you will find these folders.
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user@ubuntu:~$ ls $HOME/.wine dosdevices drive_c system.reg userdef.reg user.reg user@ubuntu:~$ |
The directory drive_c is as the c:\ in a windows installation, so if we wanto tu run for example putty.exe we need to do this:
cd $HOME/.wine/drive_c/
mkdir my_programs
cd my_programs
wget http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/latest/x86/putty.exe
wine putty.exe
after that you will see this something like this.
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Yum install wine doesnt work on CetOS 5. Any tips?
Can you explain how i can install it on my server hosting. because i wanna try to run windows software on my hosting server.
@Anonymous Ha!:
You can't share a file on your desktop like that.
Try giving the exact error.
I followed the instructions which work but when i'm trying to open a .exe (not putty) it does this
file:///home/linuxmce/Desktop/gggr1.png for a good 10 min then it does this
file:///home/linuxmce/Desktop/gggr2.png
Help please?
Thank you - I followed your instructions with my my new ASUS Eee PC 900 and it works perfectly. I then was able to to load and run the AOPA Flight Planning software.
I tried to do what you said but it doesn't work.