Popular Science posts: wineIs a software that allows UNIX-like operating systems to run Microsoft Windows programs under X Window System on x86 and x86-64. On the other hand, computer programmers can transfer Windows programs to Unix-like operating systems through wine libraries. There are also a lot of software released after wine testing, such as Picasa, uTorrent, mediaco der. Wine is interpreted
"WINEISNOtE", That is, wine is not a simulator. Although wine has another unofficial name ,"WinDowsEMulator ", that is, the Windows simulator. The correct name of wine is "Wine", not all uppercase or all lowercase letters. Wine is not a Windows simulator. Instead, it uses API conversion technology to implement a function corresponding to Linux to Call DLL to run Windows programs. Wine is a free software license for GNU wide General Public License (lgpl)
. Wine is not perfect-as a compatibility layer, program crashes, high CPU usage, and low running efficiency may occur, and some hardware operations (such as online banking) cannot be completed; google Picasa for Linux is a program built on wine, and Disney is added to wine development so that Photoshop can run effectively. Wine is only 32-bit, 16-bit programs such as DoS are not supported.
For details, refer to [Wikipedia: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine]
Installation Process(Test environment: Ubuntu 11.10):
1. Click the power icon in the upper-right corner of the screen and select "system settings" in the pop-up list ";
2. Select "software source". Then, select the "other software" tab and click "add;
3. Click "add", enter "PPA: Ubuntu-wine/PPA", click "add source", and close the window;
4. Press CTRL + ALT + T to create a combination, enter "sudo add-Apt-repository PPA: Ubuntu-wine/PPA" in "terminal", and press Enter;
5. Enter "sudo apt-Get Update" and press Enter;
6. After the previous one is complete, enter "sudo apt-Get install wine1.3" and press ENTER;
7. For installation inquiry, select "Y" and press Enter;
8. installation is complete.
Note: The software source location of ubuntu 12.04 has been changed, you can find the software source by [starting "ubuntu Software Center"-moving the mouse to the upper left corner of the screen-selecting "edit-software source" in the menu.
View Verification:
1. Go to the main menu, search for wine, and click Start to configure other related options.
As shown in, this is the main interface displayed after I install wine.
If there are any errors, please correct them!