Wine

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.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 x86_64

• 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
yast -i flex
yast -i bison

• compile it

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

What a joy to find someone else who tihkns this way.