wiki/applications/wine.md

Wine

Wine is a compatibility layer to run windows programs on linux machines.

Setup

Arch-Linux

• 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

Configuration

• 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/<insert program> - Run the program with wine