How to install Wine 1.7.30 on Fedora 20

The new version of Wine 1.7.30 is now released and brings many improvements. This tutorial is going to show you how to install Wine 1.7.30 on Fedora 20. If you are running Fedora 21, you can try this tutorial as well but we haven’t tested this tutorial on Fedora 21.

Wine is an important application if you want to run Windows software on your Linux desktop. Wine is not Windows emulator and so far this application helped many Linux users to run Windows applications on their Linux desktop.

Steps to install Wine 1.7.30 on Fedora 20

For 32 bit system

A. Install dependency files 

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

B. Download Wine 1.7.30 package

wget -c http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.30.tar.bz2

C. Extract the archive and install it

tar -xjvf wine-1.7.30.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.7.30/
./tools/wine/install

For 64 bit system

A. Install dependency files

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

B. Download Wine package

wget -c http://citylan.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.30.tar.bz2

C. Extract package and install wine

tar -xjvf wine-1.7.30.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.7.30/
./configure –enable-win64
make
sudo make install

Done.