wiki/wiki/linux/wine.md

WINE

WINE is a compatibility layer to run windows programs on Linux machines.

Setup

WINE can be installed on most distributions by acquiring the wine package. The winetricks package also is recommended. Alternatively it can be downloaded from the official website.

Usage

Run a windows program

• 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

Games and management/configuration of them

WINE is able to run many Windows games. An easy way to create WINE prefixes for different games and managing the installations of them is Lutris.