How to install and configure wine on ubuntu
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Wine is a program with that you can make Windows programs run in Linux system.
In this tutorial,I will tell you how to install and configure wine on ubuntu.
Installing wine:
-one way to install wine is open a terminal window and execute command:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
-another way,first download the latest sound code of wine from here,and extract to your home folder.
then,download depend package for your versions of ubuntu here.I’m using ubuntu 8.04 so it is hardy.sh.zip,extract it to home folder and execute following commands in terminal:
chmod +x hardy.sh
sudo ./hardy.sh
cd wine-1.1.19/ (go to the wine file folder you extracted.)
sudo ./configure
sudo make depend && make
make install
Configuring wine:
-Execute command winecfg in terminal,a file “/home/your-user/.wine” will be created and a new window opened like this:
at Applications tab select you windows version by pulldownmenus,click Autodetect at Drivers tab
for audio configurations,tick ALSA if you have a independent audio card,else tick OSS at Audio tab.
You can run a windows program by typing:
wine program-name -opengl
but,some windows programs will not work or will look ugly without windows fonts,and type following command to install windows fonts:
sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
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Reader Comments
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This is great, thanks to you this is the first app I’ve activated using the sudo command. Thank you very much. Instructions were exceptional.
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Anyone know how to get wine up and running with Ubuntu 4.1 Warty Warhog? Help please.
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How to install and run maya 2008 windows version with wine, it it possible ? ? ? ?
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how to resize the window in wine graphics
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