Differences between Wine Stable, Development & Staging versions. Stable versions normally offer less bugs with better stability and usually receive updates every 3- 6 months after release. The development version receives an update every 2 weeks which is uploaded to the PPA in a few days after release. The decision to stick with the stable version (Even number versions: 1. Odd number version: 1.
Development version. You not only get the latest with any new fixes it offers, but also become a tester and can help in the development cycle. In relation to Development and Staging, the Main difference is that Staging is the Bleeding Edge version of Wine, while the Development has gone through a bit of more testing. Installing the Recommended Stable Wine version (from PPA)In the terminal type the following: sudo add- apt- repository ppa: ubuntu- wine/ppa - y & & sudo apt- get update & & sudo apt- get install wine. That should leave you with the latest version. When the development cycle starts, use the wine- builds PPA mentioned above.
Installing the Stable PPA also installs winetricks. How to know which components an application needs. To find out what components an app needs, look in the Wine Application Database.
It lists if the application is usable, what components it needs and how to install them. How to install additional components, DLLS and Libraries to Wine. To have a working and enhanced Wine environment for your games and apps, I suggest you use winetricks to install additional components which will offer better compatibility with games for example. So, to have a better working system do the following: In this example I will use winetricks to prepare for HL/HL2 (Non steam versions, since the Steam versions already came out.
For this versions I would suggest: How can I install Steam? Know that Half- Life and HL2 are natively supported in Ubuntu). To play HL/HL2 you need the Wine PPA as mentioned above. After installing and opening winecfg at least once continue with winetricks. After it opens follow this steps: Select Select the default wineprefix. Select Install a windows DLL or component. Install all that I have marked (and any additional you need).
This covers many apps: Now right click the installer for HL/HL2 and select Open with Wine. Both games should work perfectly. This applies to apps in general and depending on the app you will need to install more or less components. Also know that you can install each component in terminal by simply adding the name of the component after the winetricks command, for example: winetricks vcrun. Will install vcrun. Will install xna.
- So what is the procedure to install a program in wine from one or several isos? No, I don't want to burn any CD.
- If you have previously installed a Wine package from. To install Wine on an Ubuntu machine without.
- A simple tutorial demonstrating how to install Wine on a Mac OS X computer. Skip to main content David Baumgold. Pick a program, and enter its directory using cd.
- Wine Downloads Supported Wine. CrossOver is a polished version of Wine provided by CodeWeavers. Wine Source Downloads.
That should start the program in Wine. Easily Install Windows Games & Software on Linux with PlayOnLinux. Wine for almost every program you install. Easily Install Windows Games. Type wine and install 'wine'. For example the command would be wine 'C:\Program Files\World of. Installing Windows Software With Wine.
Troubleshooting a Wine App. Sometimes, when running an App one or several of the following can actions can happen: Frozen App. Wine opens a Blue window for a moment and then closes it.
Nothing appears to happen. Inside the Wine window everything is Black in the start or at some point. DLL, Video card or Component not recognized. For most of this problems there are solutions. Here are the recommended steps for you to start troubleshooting your way into a Wine app: Always visit the Wine App Site to see what other testers have done to make the App work. For example here is me testing Dead Island: Riptide which I gave it a Bronze since after the selecting the character the whole game went to a Black screen.
What I did to test out what was happening was to go to the terminal and run the game from there. In the terminal some of the errors suggested I was missing a vital piece for the game to work. After reading the error output and doing what it suggested (Replacing a corrupted DLL) I could install a component the game needed and the game worked perfectly. Knowing what the game needs is crucial to getting the game working correctly.
Setting the winecfg options and OS environment is only a small part. This is only creating the environment for the app.
You need to add other functionality like Direct. X, XNA, . NET Framework and more that the app might need in order to work. This are key components for some apps. Without them, even if some apps work correctly, others will not. Making sure you have all of this components gives you a higher chance of complying with what an app needs. As you can see from my Dead Island test I added several winetricks packages and also installed 3 packages the games comes with (Direct.
X, Windows Media Format and Microsoft Visual C++ 2. With this I managed to guarantee that the game would start and be playable.
Some apps are only created for certain Windows versions as seen with Dungeon Keeper. To specify a particular Windows Version for a particular app you can open winecfg navigate to Applications and select Add Application, then search for the applications executable file and click on Open. Now select the application from the list and then change the Windows Version for it. This way, only this application will have an specific version of Windows assigned to it, instead of globally changing the Windows version for all apps. Changing the Windows version globally can affect apps that were installed with a different Windows version. For example, Installing Terraria in a Windows XP environment and then changing it after playing to Windows 7 will give you one of two errors, one, not finding the saved games and two not running the app.
Running an app to diagnose what the problem can be done through the terminal which is the best way by far to know what the app is doing or needing. The app can tell you information like: What missing DLL it needs to run (mscore. Normally you can paste this DLLs inside the game folder or in the Windows/System. Or both) and that should solve the problem. For missing components use winetricks. When troubleshooting an App, always run the app in an emulated Desktop Window. Open winecfg go to Graphics and enable Emulate a Virtual Desktop.
Then set the resolution for it. This way, if the app freezes, hijacks the keyboard and/or mouse focus, at least you have a way to eliminate the app instead of having it fullscreen where you have few choices: For freezing scenarios of an app at fullscreen I suggest activating the . To do this firs configure it by running sudo dpkg- reconfigure keyboard- configuration and on the last option there that talks about killing X, say . This will enable the CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE combination. Remember that if an app needs a minimum or recommended hardware requirement in Windows, it will also need the same on Linux. If the app needs 5.
MB of RAM and a 2. Ghz CPU, it will need the same on Linux using Wine.
Sometimes you will come across an app in an ISO or any other Image format that you can not manage to open or install. Ubuntu comes with several tools to open this files but the best one I have tried so far is CDEMU which covers several types of images that bring Multi- Sector or Protected format.
This is the closest you will get to something similar to DAEMON Tools. Cases like The Sims 3, Simcity 2. More info in Apps capable of mounting/unmounting CD/DVD Images with multi- sector or protected format. For cases where an specific app is not running, showing graphical glitches, black screen or not running with full graphics I actually recommend reading one of the following links that applies to the end user for video support: Nvidia Users - How do I install the Nvidia drivers? Hybrid - Is a NVIDIA Ge. Force with Optimus Technology supported by Ubuntu?
Ati - What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD? Apart from checking the above, if you have the correct drivers I would also add that you need to check if your video card has Open. GL support. For this I would first install mesa- utils if not yet installed: sudo apt- get install mesa- utilsto test for Open. GL support. Simply run a check to see if you have Open. GL support: glxinfo.
Another alternative would be: /usr/lib/nux/unity. Another very important point is to run the application from the terminal as in wine App. Name. exe, this way it will show what the problem is. This way the launcher will hide when the mouse leaves it's area. Shader Model 3. 0 is not recognized in Wine (Including Steam games)There are games that require Shader Models and output an error similar to Required Open. GL extension GL. To fix this simply type the following in the terminal: sudo apt- get install libtxc- dxtn- s. Wine has come a LONG way from the days where newer games could not be played.
It has gotten to a point where playing in Ubuntu is effortless. Wine has even some support for SM4. Direct. X 1. 0/1. Wine 1. 6. If the problem persists it means that either your video card does not support this or you are missing the correct libraries. Open the Dash and type `winetricks`.
Select your wineprefix then **Change Settings**. Then look for the **glsl=enabled** option and select it. This should solve the Shader Model issue. Cases like the game Limbo are solved this way. How do I open multiple Wine apps without them using the same Window (Overlapping)You can setup multiple Wine windows by adjusting some Wine parameters before starting each individual Wine program. The fastest way is to open the terminal where the executable of the app you want to run exists. Let us assume it is the Wow.
Then simply type the following: wine explorer /desktop=WOW,1. Now assuming you have the game installed somewhere else, you would the following change: wine explorer /desktop=WOW,1. The output should be similar to this when running for example 4 apps: There is a more easier way to accomplish this. The idea is to create a Desktop shortcut by right clicking on the Desktop and selecting New Document - -> Empty Document. This should create an . Now open the file and paste in it the following: . It will turn into an .
Now right click the Icon again and go to Properties - -> Permissions - -> Activate Allow executing file as program. Now go to the Basic Tab and insert the information you need to execute that wine app.
The end result should be something like this: 7. Does having Ubuntu 6.
Wine - open. SUSEWine is an open- source implementation of Windows API for Linux. This enables you to run your favorite Windows programs on Linux.
Unlike VMWare, Xen and others which pretend to be a computer, on which you then run the real Microsoft Windows as you would on a physical machine, Wine instead just pretends to be Windows, by offering applications the Windows API and functions they use, and mapping them to the corresponding Linux API. You can check the Wine Application Database for other people's experiences with your application. The preferred (more reliable and secure) way is to install it from the Windows program's installation CD, by running the setup. Wine, i. e. You don't need to have Microsoft Windows installed nor to access any possibly existing Windows partition. That should start the program in Wine (TODO verify common file managers). Konsole or Gnome Terminal), you can also type wine . The quotes are needed if you have spaces in the pathname.
You should see an application . Test the command in a shell first before adding it to the menu. There are also two commercial products based to a large part on Wine: Crossover Office and Cedega. Both have made changes to Wine to improve the execution of some specific applications on which they concentrate. You should check their list of supported applications. See the Compatibility list. There also is Crossover Games focusing on games.
See the Cedega Games Database. Note that both Cedega and Open- Source Wine support playing Direct. X and Open. GL games, but the gaming related codebases are very different since they forked some years ago. Installing wine with your package manager will do the right thing and the 6. This is the recommended version for most users. Only for the experienced user, can potentially be broken!
Just start winetricks. In this case it appears that Internet Explorer 6 should be installed, in order to have full functionality in Linux. This is usually needed only if you are debugging Wine, or if you want to compile an older separate version of wine for different programs. This will map all drives for wine and create a . Wine configuration dialog. It's recommended that you eject all removable drives before running winecfg as these may confuse the installation. Try to. cp /usr/share/wine/fonts/* ~/.
After this Chem. Sketch and associated programs are unusable with a hidden window unless you take the steps in SDB: Chem. Sketch with wine.