Revision as of 12:03, 25 October 2013

wine, the Windows Emulator, is a command to execute Windows files under Linux.

Getting it

To download, compile and install it, find out your distribution and proceed accordingly.

cd
bunzip2 Downloads/wine*
tar xvf Downloads/wine*

yast -i gcc-32bit flex bison libX11-devel-32bit freetype2-devel-32bit

cd
cd wine*
./configure && make -j8 && make install

cd
bunzip2 Downloads/wine*
tar xvf Downloads/wine*

yast -i gcc-32bit
yast -i flex
yast -i bison

cd
cd wine*
./configure && make -j8 && make install

wine msiexec /a file.msi

RS232 serial port is com1 under Windows and /dev/ttyUSB0 under SUSE Linux 12.1. As long as you use a USB to serial adapter. Then do a

cd
cd .wine
cd dosdevices
ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 com1

and you can use your USB to serial adapter under wine.

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 = Getting it =
 To download, compile and install it, [[find out your distribution]] and proceed accordingly.
+== SUSE Linux 12.2 ==
+* Download it from http://www.winehq.com
+* [[open a console]] and [[unpack]] it like this:
+ cd
+ bunzip2 Downloads/wine*
+ tar xvf Downloads/wine*
+* [[install]] some dependencies
+ yast -i gcc-32bit flex bison libX11-devel-32bit freetype2-devel-32bit
+* [[compile]] it
+ cd
+ cd wine*
+ ./[[configure]] && [[make]] -j8 && make install
 == SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 x86_64 ==