How to Install Wine 1.6.2 in RHEL/Fedora/CentOS/Ubuntu/Linux Mint ?

"Wine" is a free  open source application  for Linux operating system which will  enable running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.

Instead of simulating internal Windows logic like a virtual machine or emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls on-the-fly, eliminating the performance and memory penalties of other methods and allowing you to cleanly integrate Windows applications into your desktop.

Benefits:

• Its uses all  possibilities of Unix Operating systems like stability, flexibility, remote administration
• Wine allows  to call windows application from shell scripts ,so as to make best usage of  Unix Systems.
• Wine makes it possible to access Windows applications remotely.
• Wine makes it economical to use thin clients
• Wine is Open Source Software, you can customise it as per your requirements

Wine comes with a software library Winelibthat lets the coders to compile Windows applications on Linux/Unix platform. Wine has now reached it's latest stable version- Wine 1.6.2.

Going forward , we will walk you through the procedure to install wine.

Download S/W: http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.6.2

Installing Wine 1.6.2 in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora:

1) Installing Dependency Packages
# yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'
# yum -y install libX11-devel freetype-devel

2) Downloading Wine 1.6.2
#wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.6.2.tar.bz2

3)Extract & Installing Wine 1.6.2
$ tar -xvjf wine-1.6.2.tar.bz2

if its 32 bit

#cd wine-1.6.2/
#./tools/wineinstall

On 64-Bit Systems

$ cd wine-1.6.2/
$ ./configure --enable-win64
$ make
# make installRunning Wine 1.6.2

4) Run wine
$ wine notepad++.exe

Install Wine 1.6.2 in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

1) Add the PPA
# add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa

2) Update the local repository.
# apt-get update

3) Install the package.
# apt-get install wine1.6