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The latest installation instructions for Wine
Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Wine 1.7.10 has been released a few hours ago. Among others, it comes with an AVI compressor, support for Thread Local Storage (TLS) in libraries that were dinamically loaded, a task scheduler, support for extender IPS protocol and about 48 bug-fixes. For more information, see the official changelog.
In this article I will show you how to install Wine 1.7.10 on Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17, CentOS 6 and RHEL 6.
There is no Wine repository available for the Fedora and CentOS/RHEL so we have to download the tar archive and install it by hand. Follow the instructions for your system’s architecture, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Wine 1.7.10 on 32 bit Fedora, CentOS and RHEL systems:
Install the dependencies first:
$ sudo yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'
$ sudo yum -y install libX11-devel freetype-devel
Download Wine 1.7.10:
$ wget -c http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.10.tar.bz2
Extract the archive and cd into it:
$ tar -xvf wine-1.7.10.tar.bz2
$ cd wine-1.7.10/
Install Wine 1.7.10:
$ ./tools/wineinstall
How to install Wine 1.7.10 on 64 bit Fedora, CentOS and RHEL systems:
Install the dependencies first:
$ sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
$ sudo yum install libX11-devel freetype-devel
Download Wine 1.7.10:
$ wget -c http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.10.tar.bz2
Extract the archive and cd into it:
$ tar -xvf wine-1.7.10.tar.bz2
$ cd wine-1.7.10/
Install Wine 1.7.10:
$ ./configure --enable-win64
$ make
$ sudo make install