HowTo Translations of this page: Français Installing Wine Before you install Wine, make sure that there is no previous Wine installation on your system, either from a package or from source. If you haven't yet installed Wine, you should be fine. Many Linux distributions come with an included Wine package, but due to Wine's rapid development rate these are usually old and often broken versions. Links to binary packages for Wine for some of the major distros can be found at the WineHQ downloads page. How to help get applications working in Wine If you want to help get an application working in Wine, the first thing you should do is register yourself in the AppDB and fill out a test report, so others know what works/doesn't work. If the application that you want working is not listed in the AppDB there is an easy to use form available for you to add it. If you are the developer or publisher of the application, you obviously have a very big incentive to help get your application working under Wine.
WineHQ - Wine Application Database Home | Ubuntu Studio WineHQ - Führt Windows-Anwendungen unter Linux, BSD, Solaris und Mac OS X aus Linux Links - The Linux Portal Wine Is Not an Emulator | Free software downloads Ubuntu Linux Help Recommended Packages To build Wine, you may need to install a bunch of supporting libraries. The instructions on this page are for an operating system with full support for 32-bit applications. If you are using a pure 64-bit operating system, go to Wine on 64-bit. generally speaking: Use ". For Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, OpenSolaris, and CentOS 5.8 64 bit, the easiest way to do this is to download and run as root (e.g. with sudo). Right-click on the link and [save link as]. sudo sh . Gentoo has its own page. Note for valgrind users If Valgrind is installed on the build machine, the wine you build will have valgrind annotations, and valgrind can be used to find accesses to freed heap blocks in Windows apps running on Wine. Ubuntu and Linux Mint You can install the same development packages that were used to create the packaged Wine using the terminal-based built-in package manager: sudo apt-get build-dep wine1.6 Enable Wine PPA Sources Repo Fedora Programs :