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Wine?

Chris2030

Mon Jul 23, 2012 6:53:53 pm

Hi,

What exactly is the utility, benefits of Wine?

Thanks.

kengator

Tue Jul 24, 2012 4:42:00 am

Hi Chris2030,

Wine is a utility which sets up a virtual Windows environment. When you configure it, and it usually just requires you to click ok for a XP environment, it sets up a virtual C drive, a bunch of lib files, etc. It's used to run Windows apps in Linux. After you configure Wine, download your windows app, right-click on the .exe and choose "run with Wine". The installer will run just like in Windows. WineHQ has a big database of windows apps that have been run with Wine.

kengator

Wolfman

Tue Jul 24, 2012 5:29:54 am

Hi Chris,

see also:

http://www.winehq.org/

and:

http://www.playonlinux.com/en/

Regards Wolfman :D