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WineHQ currently offers time-based releases in two branches: stable and development. In addition, you can install the most up-to-date development version of Wine by using the latest available source code from the Git repository generally updated 5 days per week.
Each version of Wine has a release tag. Beginning with Wine 2. If you are using git , the tag will be generated by the git-describe command, and looks like:. Examples: wine There are a number of programs that are derived from the standard Wine codebase in some way or another. Some of these are commercial products from companies that actively contribute to the Wine project. These products try to stand out or distinguish themselves from the standard version of Wine by offering greater compatibility, easier configuration, and commercial support.
If you require such things, it is a good idea to consider purchasing these products. There are many ways to run software other than through Wine.
If you are considering using Wine to run an application you might want to think about the viability of these approaches if you encounter difficulty. Instead of running a particular Windows application with Wine, one frequently viable alternative is to simply run a different application. Many Windows applications, particularly more commonly used ones such as media players, instant messengers, and filesharing programs have very good open source equivalents.
Furthermore, a sizeable number of Windows programs have been ported to Linux directly, eliminating the need for Wine or Windows entirely. These alternatives should be found through your system package management facilities. Probably the most obvious method of getting a Windows application to run is to simply run it on Windows.
However, security, license cost, backward-compatibility, and machine efficiency issues can make this a difficult proposition, which is why Wine is so useful in the first place. Another alternative is to use ReactOS , which is a fully open source alternative to Windows.
ReactOS shares code heavily with the Wine project, but rather than running Windows applications on top of Linux they are instead run on top of the ReactOS kernel. ReactOS also offers compatibility with Windows driver files, allowing the use of hardware without functional Linux drivers. Rather than installing an entirely new operating system on your machine, you can instead run a virtual machine at the software level and install a different operating system on it.
Thus, you could run a Linux system and at the same time run Windows along with your application in a virtual machine simultaneously on the same hardware. Virtual machines allow you to install and run not only different versions of Windows on the same hardware, but also other operating systems, including ReactOS. There are several different virtual machine offerings out there, and some are also able to emulate x86 hardware on different platforms. There are significant drawbacks to using virtual machines, however.
Unlike Wine, such programs are emulators, so there is an inevitable speed decrease which can be quite substantial. Furthermore, running an application inside a virtual machine prevents fully integrating the application within the current environment.
You won't, for example, be able to have windows system tray icons or program shortcuts sitting alongside your desktop Linux ones, since instead the Windows applications must reside completely within the virtual machine.
Once you've decided that Wine is right for your needs, the next step is to decide how you want to install it. There are three methods for installing Wine from WineHQ, each with their own advantages and disadvantages. By far the easiest method for installing Wine is to use a prepackaged version of Wine. These packages contain ready-to-run Wine binary files specifically compiled for your distribution, and they are tested regularly by the packagers for both functionality and completeness.
Packages are the recommended method for installing Wine. We make them easily available at the WineHQ downloads page , and these are always the latest packages available. Being popular, Wine packages can also be found elsewhere in official distribution repositories. These can, however, sometimes be out of date, depending on the distribution. Packages are easily upgradable as well, and many distributions can upgrade Wine seamlessly with a few clicks.
Building your own installable binary package from a source package is also possible, although it is beyond the scope of this guide. Sometimes the Wine packages don't fit your needs exactly. Perhaps they're not available for your architecture or distribution, or perhaps you want to build Wine using your own compiler optimizations or with some options disabled, or perhaps you need to modify a specific part of the source code before compilation.
Being an open source project, you are free to do all of these things with Wine source code, which is provided with every Wine release.
This method of installation can be done by downloading a Wine source archive and compiling from the command line. If you are comfortable with such things and have special needs, this option may be for you. Getting Wine source archives is simple. Every release, we put a source package in compressed tar. Compiling and installing Wine from source is slightly more difficult than using a package, however we will cover it in depth and attempt to hold your hand along the way.
If you wish to try out the bleeding edge of Wine development, or would even like to help develop Wine yourself, you can download the very latest source code from our Git repository. Please take note that the usual warnings for using a developmental version still apply. The source code on the Git repository is largely untested and may not even compile properly.
It is, however, the best way to test out how Wine will work in the next release, and if you're modifying source code it's best to get the latest copy. The Git repository is also useful for application maintainers interested in testing if an application will still work right for the next release, or if a recent patch actually improves things.
If you're interested in helping us to get an application working in Wine, see the Wine Installation and Configuration guide. Installing a package on a fresh system is remarkably straightforward. Simply download and install the package using whatever utility your distribution provides.
There is usually no need to explicitly remove old packages before installing, as modern Linux distributions should upgrade and replace them automatically. If you installed Wine from source code, however, you should remove it before installing a Wine package. See the section on uninstalling Wine from source for proper instructions. Wine works on a huge amount of different Linux distributions, as well other Unix-like systems such as Solaris and FreeBSD, each with their own specific way of installing and managing packages.
Fortunately, however, the same general ideas apply to all of them, and installing Wine should be no more difficult than installing any other software, no matter what distribution you use.
Uninstalling Wine packages is simple as well, and in modern Linux distributions is usually done through the same easy interface as package installation. We won't cover the specifics of installing or uninstalling Wine packages among the various systems' methods of packaging and package management in this guide, however, up to date installation notes for particular distributions can be found at the WineHQ website in Category:Distributions.
If you need further help figuring out how to simply install a Wine package, we suggest consulting your distribution's documentation, support forums, or IRC channels. Before installing Wine from source, make sure you uninstall any Wine binary packages you may have on your system. Installing from source requires use of the terminal window as well as a full copy of the Wine source code. Once having downloaded the source from Git or extracted it from an archive, navigate to it using the terminal and then follow the remaining steps.
Wine makes use of many open source libraries during its operation. While Wine is not strictly dependent on these libraries and will compile without most of them, much of Wine functionality is improved by having them available at compile time. In the past, many user problems were caused by people not having the necessary development libraries when they built Wine from source; because of this reason and others, we highly recommend installing via binary packages or by building source packages which can automatically satisfy their build dependencies.
If you wish to install build dependencies by hand, there are several ways to see if you're missing some useful development libraries. The most straightforward approach is to watch the output of configure before you compile Wine and see if anything important is missing; if it is, simply install what's missing and rerun configure before compiling. Once you've installed the build dependencies you need, you're ready to compile the package. In the terminal window, after having navigated to the Wine source tree, run the following commands:.
Since Wine can be run from the build directory, it is not necessary to install it. If you do wish to install it, after the wine build is complete, run. This command requires root privileges. Although you should never run Wine as root, you will need to install it this way. To uninstall Wine from source, once again navigate to the same source folder that you used to install Wine using the terminal.
Then, run the following command:. This command will require root privileges, and should remove all of the Wine files from your system. It will not, however, remove your Wine configuration and applications located in your user home directory, so you are free to install another version of Wine or delete that configuration by hand.
This chapter will describe all aspects of using Wine, such as basic Wine invocation, installing and running Windows executables, command line parameters of various Wine support programs, etc. The first argument should be the name of the file you want wine to execute. If the executable is in the Path environment variable, you can simply give the executable file name.
However, if the executable is not in Path , you must give the full path to the executable. See How to run Windows programs from the command line for more information. Most binary Wine packages will associate Wine with. If that is the case, you should be able to simply double-click on the. You can also right-click on the file, choose "Run with", and choose "Wine". This may sometimes open the file in the wrong program - if this happens, check the filetype associations for the file using whatever tool your desktop environment provides and edit as needed.
Note that if you have built Wine from source you will have to create the filetype association yourself. You should be able to use them just as you would on Windows. If the above methods fail, open a terminal and run the. Because Windows programs will often look for files in the location they were started from, when using the command line you should start them in a very specific way: "change directory" to the folder where the program is located and run the.
For example:. In some cases you may need to specify the full path to an executable file. For example, if you need to install a program from multiple CDs, entering the directory in the terminal will prevent you from removing the CD. You need to use wine start if you specify a full path to the.
That is, the command line is identical, except with wine in front. Note, however, that you may need to escape certain special characters with backslashes due to the way they're handled in the Linux shell.
For instance:. MSI files cannot be run directly; you need to use either Wine's msiexec program or wine start from a terminal:. Applications are installed under Wine the same way you would in Windows: by running the installer. If the application installer requests it, you may find that Wine creates icons on your desktop and in your app menu. If that happens, you can start the app by clicking on them. Some programs install associated control panel applets, examples of this would be Internet Explorer and QuickTime.
You can access the Wine control panel by running in a terminal:.
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