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The latest installation instructions for Wine
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 1.7.19, which has been recently released. Among others, it got improvements to the XML writer, headers for Direct2D suppot, enhanced OLE Accessible Object support, New JSProxy DLL for automatic proxy configuration, fixes for some memory isseus and 99 bug-fixes. 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 1.7.19 on Fedora 20, Fedora 19, 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 1.7.19 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 1.7.19:
$ wget -c http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.19.tar.bz2
Extract the archive and cd into it:
$ tar -xvf wine-1.7.19.tar.bz2
$ cd wine-1.7.19/
Install Wine 1.7.19:
$ ./tools/wineinstall
How to install Wine 1.7.19 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 1.7.19:
$ wget -c http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.19.tar.bz2
Extract the archive and cd into it:
$ tar -xvf wine-1.7.19.tar.bz2
$ cd wine-1.7.19/
Install Wine 1.7.19:
$ ./configure --enable-win64
$ make
$ sudo make install