Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) is a software for running Windows applications on Linux Machines. The latest version available is Wine 1.7.17, which has been recently released. Among others, it comes with 89 bug-fixes and some more implementations for the Task Scheduler. For more information, see the release notes.
Also worth mentioning: While the the developers are working at making Windows Apps available for Android running on both ARM and X86 architectures, via Wine, they also want to make Wine available for Chrome OS.
In this article I will show you how to install Wine 1.7.17 on OpenSUSE 13.1 and OpenSUSE 12.3.
Because it is available via repository, installing Wine 1.7.17 on the latest versions of OpenSUSE is easy. All you have to do is add the repository to your system, update the local repository index and install the wine1.7 and winetricks packages.
Follow the instructions for your system exactly, in order to get a successful installation.
How to install Wine 1.7.17 on OpenSUSE 13.1:
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_13.1/ wine
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install wine1.7 winetricks
Optional, to remove wine do:
$ sudo zypper remove wine1.7 winetricks
How to install Wine 1.7.17 on OpenSUSE 12.3:
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_12.3/ wine
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install wine
Optional, to remove wine do:
$ sudo zypper remove wine1.7 winetricks
