Installing wine in Linux running Windows programs

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Introduction to Wine

Wine is the abbreviation for wine is not a Emulator (wine not a simulator) and is actually a conversion layer (or program loader) that can run Windows applications on Linux and other similar operating systems that are compatible with POSIX. Wine does not emulate Windows applications on Linux, but instead provides additional ways to implement DLLs (typical Windows applications can call these DLLs) and processes that replace the Windows NT kernel. Wine is entirely made up of non-Microsoft code.

Wine supports a large number of applications, but not all of them get the same support. You can access the Wine application database (appdb, http://appdb.winehq.org) to see how well your favorite Windows applications are compatible with wine. Appdb is maintained by the community; You can also add your own discovered applications. APPDB defines the following types of levels:

Platinum: It can be rated platinum if an application can be installed and run smoothly and easily in the "out-of-the-box" state. The wine configuration file does not need to be changed.

Gold: Applications with some DLL overlay files, other settings, or third-party software can run smoothly and unhindered.

Silver: In terms of "normal" use, applications can run brilliantly. For example, the game runs very well in single player mode, but not in multiplayer mode; Windows Media player works well as a plug-in and standalone player, but cannot handle digital rights Management (DRM), and so on.

Bronze: The application can run, but there are some problems, even if it is normally used. For example, the game does not correctly re-plot or display the font in the wrong color, the speed is much slower than usual, and so on.

Garbage: If the application cannot be used for its intended purpose, it will receive this rating. If so, there should be at least one software defect report in the generic software defect tracking system bugzilla. The application cannot be installed, cannot be started, or, even if it can be started, there are many errors that are almost impossible to use.

One. Install wine

Wine is adapted to all popular Unix operating systems including Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, SUSE, Mandriva, FreeBSD, Solaris, and Mac OS X.

On Ubuntu:

1. Open applications (application) >ubuntu Software Center (Unbuntu Software Centre) to open Ubuntu Software Center.

Then click Edit >software Sources (software source). Select the other software (additional software) tab and click Add. Then enter the following apt lines:

Ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

Select "PPA for Ubuntu Wine Team" from the Get Software (get software) section on the left and select Microsoft Windows compatibility Layer (development files) –wine 1.3-dev. Click Install. This will install the latest wine package, including the development library.

Tip: Uninstall the existing wine software package to ensure maximum compatibility. In addition, if you want to clean the installation, you can delete the wine user directory, for this can be used from the home directory command Rm-r-V wine.

2.

Terminal input [How to install and run Windows applications in Ubuntu14.04]

sudo add-apt-repository Ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

sudo apt-get update

Apt-get Install wine1.7

Wine--version

[Wine completely unloaded]

Two. Install the Wine support package

Now we need to install a non-open source (but free) support package. This includes software packages such as Microsoft Core Fonts, the Visual C + + runtime environment, and so on.

Install Cabextract:

This package is required to decompress the Microsoft. cab file.

$ sudo apt-get install Cabextract

Download the Winetricks script:

Now we need to download a great script called Winetricks, which will automatically download and install the necessary support packages.

$ wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks

Now, enter the following command to install the necessary support packages:

$ sh winetricks corefonts Tahoma

Tip: You can also run Winetricks without any command-line arguments, so you can choose which packages you want to install from a nice GUI interface.

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