How to install Wine 1.7.17 on CentOS 6.5

Wine is a special program that will let us to install Windows program on most Linux system. Wine is not a Windows emulator. Here I will show you how to install Wine 1.7.17 on CentOS 6.5. Since there is no such Wine repository available for CentOS, we need to install it from source. We will try to install this Wine 1.7.17 from source. So we need to do some command stuffs.

First, we need to install dependency files. Do these commands on Terminal as root

yum -y groupinstall ‘Development Tools’
yum -y install libX11-devel freetype-devel

Now download Wine 1.7.17 tar.bz2

wget http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.17.tar.bz2

Now extract the file

tar -xjvf wine-1.7.17.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.7.17

Now install wine

./tools/wineinstall

 

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One Comment

  1. Hi

    Great instruction and help, thanks

    I hit a glitch on the very last line

    ./tools/wineinstall

    I get the error message :-

    Wine Installer v1.0

    You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as a user.
    Aborting.

    I tried as user, but this cant find the ./tools directory.

    Any idea ?

    Thanks

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