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wiki/applications/wine.md
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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/<insert program> - Run the program with wine