Wine is a translation layer (a program loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux. Windows programs running in Wine act as native programs would, running without the performance or memory usage penalties of an emulator, with a similar look and feel to other applications on your desktop. From the Wine Website
Remember kids, Wine Is Not an Emulator
Add Wine's repositories to your source list:
sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list
Add the repository key:
wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Update apt-get:
sudo apt-get update
Install Wine:
sudo apt-get install wine
Once installed you have to configure it:
winecfg
edited by pHreaksYcle
3 comments:
You don't *have* to configure it.
Running winecfg is optional.
At the moment, it tends to be needed
in a few situations, e.g. when using
graphcs- or sound-intensive programs.
We hope to improve Wine to the point
where winecfg is needed much less often.
if "we" implies that you help develop it, than i'd like to extend an obligatory, but honest, THANKS :)
Dan Kegel is right but you also don't "have" to configure Wine, but then you don't have to shower every day or look both ways before crossing a street.
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