Help with WINE!

[Firecat12135 0]

Could someone out there give me a step by step tutorial on how to install and run my programs using WINE?

 

PLEASE

[Dapper Dan 0]

Hi Firecat12135 and welcome

 

We need to know what distro you're running before we can proceed.

[OldSpiceAP 0]

For most common distro's of linux there are prepackaged version of wine available.

 

For debian and yoper you can just open a konsole and type

apt-get install wine

 

and it will be installed.

 

For SuSE, RedHat, Mandrake, etc.. you can go to www.winehq.org and click on download wine. They maintain packages for many different linux distros. Download the appropriate version for your linux distro. Usually it will be in a .rpm file.

 

open a konsole and cd into the directory that the rpm file is located in.

 

then type something akin to this example:

 

rpm -ivh wine-20041019-SuSE82.i586.rpm

or

rpm -ivh wine-20040814-yourdistrohere.rpm

 

 

then

 

to run a program using wine open a konsole and cd into the directory containing the exe file.

 

then type:

 

wine yourprogram.exe

 

where yourprogram is the name of the file you are trying to run.

 

Remember - its case sensative!