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How to Install Wine on Solus 4

Tested with Solus 4.5

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This document explains how to install a recent version of 64-bit/32-bit Wine Development, capable of executing 64-bit and 32-bit Windows apps.

As of March 24, 2024 If you install Wine using Solus' Software Center, choose Wine-32bit. Counterintuitively, this installed both Wine-64bit and Wine-32bit. If you chose to install Wine, only Wine-64bit is installed, the command to invoke Wine is wine64, and 64-bit Windows apps that have 32-bit installers cannot be installed.

Repository update and system upgrade

$ sudo eopkg update-repo

Install wine

$ sudo eopkg install wine wine-32bit

Verify the installation.

$ wine --version

Configure Wine

To bring up Wine's configuration panel, open a Terminal window and execute winecfg. If installing mono or gecko is offered, accept the offer.

When prompted, set your preferred version of Windows. Windows 10 may be preferred for most applications.

$ wine winecfg

If you are creating custom Wine prefixes, this configuration must be repeated for each prefix.

Two simple tests

Just for fun, or to see Wine in action …

Display a simple clock

$ wine clock

Run Wine's builtin web browser

If installing gecko is offered, accept the offer.

$ wine iexplore

How to install a Windows app

Wine is a Terminal application. Even after installing Wine, you will not find it listed with the desktop apps that came with your Linux distribution. Wine is invoked using Terminal commands.

As an example of installing a Windows app with Wine, consider Abcdef, a fictitious Windows application which is installed by Abcdef_Setup.exe. To install your own Windows app, replace Abcdef_Setup.exe with the filename of your app's installer.

The first step is to download Abcdef_Setup.exe and store it in ~/Downloads.

After doing that, execute winecfg (if you haven't already).

$ wine winecfg

The command to execute Abcdef_Setup.exe must be issued from the directory where Abcdef_Setup.exe is located, so execute

$ cd ~/Downloads

The next command starts the installation. Respond to the installer's prompts just as you would in Windows.

$ wine Abcdef_Setup.exe

Here is a real example. It installs version 8.6 of the text editor Notepad++. The file name of the Notepad++ installation program is npp.8.6.Installer.x64.exe

$ wine npp.8.6.Installer.x64.exe

When installation is complete, look for an Abcdef launcher on your desktop. There may also be an entry named Wine in your distribution's Applications. Launchers may require you to confirm execution of your app is safe.

More about installing Windows apps


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