# Wine Wine is a compatibility layer to run windows programs on linux machines. ## Installation and Configuration - Enable multilib support in pacman - `vim /etc/pacman.conf` - Uncomment the following lines ``` [multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist ``` - `pacman -S wine winetricks` - Install wine and configuration helper - Set the global variable `WINEPREFIX` to your liking, standard is `$HOME/.wine` - `winetricks` - run the installation of basic windows dependencies to the wine directory - Move the program you want to run to `$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/` - `winetricks sandbox` - (Optional) if you don't want wine to set up directories or files into your home directory - `wine $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/` - Run the program with wine