Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems.
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Is cygwin like wine, but for linux applications?
Does cygwin work line wine, providing a compatibility layer inside a foreign os?
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How to remove Notepad from the applications list?
After installing Wine, Notepad has became a default application to open unknown textual files by double click. I'd like to eliminate this behaviour and remove Notepad from the list of applications ...
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What files should I copy from Windows into Wine?
As far as I understand Wine runtime does better if some libraries are copied from MS Windows, but some Windows system libraries really are not to be used with Wine (some can even make it stop working, ...
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Wine vs Virtualbox?
I have used Wine before. I recently heard of VirtualBox. Do they do the same thing? What are the differences and relative merits of these?
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Fritz WLAN USB stick - Xlib/Xfree86 dev packages for installing Wine
I have installed Ubuntu 10.4 and want to install the driver for my Fritz WLAN USB stick according to http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/fritz!wlan_usb_stick (German site... sorry). Now I am trying to install ...
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Configuring File Associations in Ubuntu with Wine
Related to this question, I have Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. I downloaded PlayOnLinux 4.1.9 (the Precise version) and used it to install Microsoft Office 2010 Pro. PlayOnLinux downloaded Wine 1.5.21 and ...
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Run an application with different TimeZone
I have an windows application (Under Wine) that only works when I change timezone to NewYork's TimeZone.
with Any other zone it doesn't start!!
So, Is it possible in Linux to run an application with ...
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Arch Linux + Gnome: Wine going berserk on “open with” menu
First of all, when I installed Wine on my system, it decided to automatically associate its "notepad" application with all types of text and image files. This was annoying enough, but on top of that, ...
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How do I get GrindEQ (Latex plugin for Word) to work with Word in Wine?
GrindEQ is a plugin for MS Word. It allows one to type LaTeX code into a Word document, then export that into Word's formatting (converts equations into Equation Editor equations, and takes care of ...
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Transparently run wine programs
When I want to run a wine program I have to type e.g.
$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/TextAloud/TextAloudMP3.exe
Would it be possible to run directly TextAloudMP3? I mean not only from command ...
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How can I force codepage/locale (different from my Linux system locale) for non-Unicode Wine applications?
I prefer using English locales for my system, but have to use some old Unicode-unaware Russian and Czech applications. In Windows I could set a locale for such applications in a separate Control Panel ...
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How do I tell if a Wine application uses hardware or software rendering?
I'm building an appliance/kiosk-type machine which is going to run a single fullscreen Wine application (Synthesia). I'm using Arch Linux running LXDE on an original 7-inch EeePC (well, souped up to ...
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Access to the files beyond Wine's virtual disks
I'm totally new to Linux. I would like to know if the executables run through Wine have any access beyond the virtual drives provided by Wine (e.g. C:/, D:/)?
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Copying a file that is written at the same time
This related question can't solve my exact problem, so I'm writing a similar question.
My scenario is the following: a program (run by wine) writes to a file sized about 10-500 KB. About 1 KB ...
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Wine installation problems in CentOS
Every time I use...
yum install wine
I get a message saying the package isn't found. I have used yum update but that does not work either. Moreover I accidentally ran chmod user:user /etc/yum...
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Keyboard (mostly) doesn't work in Wine
When I run any program in wine (e.g. notepad), I can use the keyboard
just fine until I click the mouse. As soon as I click the mouse for any
reason, the keyboard stops working entirely.
I'm using ...
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Does ie4linux work under Fedora?
I'm trying to install ie4linux, following this tutorial
root
yum install wine cabextract
normal user
wget -q http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
tar xfz ...
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InitDevice::CreateDevice problems with wine
I have a game on my Sony Vaio (Pirates of the Caribbean). Whenever I try to run it under Wine, I get the following error message:
InitDevice::CreateDevice The device does not support the queried ...
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Can we use the exe files in RedHat 6 as we do in UBUNTU
in Ubuntu we can use .exe file using wine software. Is there any such software in RedHat so that we can use .exe files?
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“No package wine available” and “No package fluxbox available”
I'm running "Centos 6 64-bit" on a Virtual Private Server (VPS) (i.e. on the cloud).
When I issue this command: "yum install vnc-server wine xterm fluxbox vsftpd firefox vnstat"
I get some results ...
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How to install wine-1.4 in the sid repo?
I want to install the latest version of Wine in my Debian box. There is wine_1.4-0.1_i386.deb in the pool/w/wine/ directory in the Debian mirrors. I have added testing, sid repos in the sources.list ...
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Installing Flash Player for Safari in Ubuntu
I have installed Safari browser in Ubuntu 10.10 using Wine tricks. Now I wish to run a website which has Flash content. I am trying to install Adobe Flash but it is not working even though Flash is ...
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Photoshop in Wine won't open, gives “File not found” error
Ever since moving to Linux Mint 14, Photoshop CS 2 in Wine has been unreliable.
It ran a couple times after my first install, but now it has settled into never running, and instead, it just returns ...
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wine error when using divfix
When I'm logged in through SSH to a Scientific Linux 6.3 machine I get this error message:
/usr/bin/wine /home/USER/.divfix/DivFix++.exe -i INPUT.avi -o out.avi
wine: created the configuration ...
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How to fix Russian letters in a Wine application when adjusting LANG does not help?
An application with a Russian UI shows question marks instead the most of its text (some elements are rendered ok though).
The system locale is English (en_US, en_IE), I've tried Ubuntu ant XUbuntu ...
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Colors wrong in wine with new x server with 8 bit color
I have an old pc game (win95) that I'm trying to play through wine on my ubuntu box. I got it running and all that pretty jazz using this code;
$ xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1 -ac -depth 8
Then in the ...
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How do I install WINE in RHEL 6.3?
I'm a beginner in Linux and I'm having a problem installing wine
I'm using RHEL 6.3 and when I use
yum install wine
it keeps giving me this
Blockquote Error: Package: wine-core-1.4.1-1.el6.i686 ...
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How can I limit wine's permissions?
I don't want wine to:
have access to the network (extra: separately defined access control per program that uses wine to start)
have access to the main users files (run wine as different user??)
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Making Netflix-desktop more stable
I've installed netflix-desktop as per the iheartubuntu Netflix Desktop app guide. It works for about 2 hours and then crashes, taking down my KDE window manager with it.
How can I make Netflix ...
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Wine fails with DirectX on Pinguy
I am trying to use Wine to play a 3d game on Linux that will run as long as the base system has the correct Direct X rendering. I have tried the Wine configurations and come up with:
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Is there a version of Wine that actually runs mainstream chat clients?
Is there a version of Wine that actually runs mainstream chat clients? I'm willing to consider commercial forks. I'd need it to support at least:
Yahoo
QQ
Skype (yes there's a native client but it's ...
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No sound in webex player in wine
I am using Fedora Core 10. I have installed wine with both wine-alsa and wine-oss sound drivers. I am able to hear test sounds by running winecfg, but when I run the webex player there is no sound, ...
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How to run programs in a Sandbox?
I have been using PlayOnLinux to run windows programs on Linux.
PlayOnLinux creates a virtual drive for each program installed and every VD represents a different Windows XP computer.
Any changes ...
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Lightweight Debian based distro?
Can anyone recommend an lightweight debian based distribution working on an PC with 800 MHZ CPU and 64 MB RAM?
Also, would some old games like Worms Armageddon or Diablo 2 work on the lightweight ...
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Photoshop CS5 in Fedora 15
I'm working on a project, which implies that I use photoshop design files. So far I haven't figured out the best way to deal with it in Fedora 15.
I installed GIMP, but layers don't look as they do ...
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How can I run Rosetta Stone (on Wine) from the menu in Crunchbang?
I added this entry to menu.xml:
<item label="Rosetta">
<action name="Execute">
<command>
wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Rosetta\ Stone/Rosetta\ Stone\ Version\ ...
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Install winetricks application to ~/.wine prefix
How can I tell winetricks to install an app to ~/.wine instead of ~/.local/share/wineprefixes/<app-name>?
I have already tried WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winetricks <app-name> without any ...
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How to stop a windows virus run in Wine from infecting executables?
Yesterday all *.exe files on my machine were infected by Win32.Neshta virus after I ran one program via wine. I cured the machine with rm -rf ~/.wine, but it's no good anyway.
So, I decided to set ...
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How to use Quicken Home Inventory on Linux (or Windows 7)
I have Quicken Home Inventory Manager and it seems that is no longer supported by Intuit, i.e. it does not run on newer Windows versions (like Windows 7 64-bit for example). Since I also use Linux, ...
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Xorg ignoring wine application
A wine application (Anarchy online, great game try it some time) is behaving very strangely.
While rendering correctly, Xorg isn't picking up on it's existence, and because of this the game only ...
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Wine cdrom mount locations on Linux Mint 10 (Ubuntu 10.10) — problems post install/switching discs
I've been trying to install a few windows games with wine on Linux Mint 10 (based on ubuntu 10.10), but I am finding that my cd-rom mount points aren't standard.
ie: rather than /media/cdrom I get ...
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wine in Xmonad is not tiling
I'm using Wine application in Xmonad. But it is not tiling like other applications. Can this be configured, that Wine will tile like
other applications?
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How to get Wine to work with SELinux?
I want to run a .msi file on Fedora 17. After installing Wine Windows Program Loader on my Linux machine, it failed to run the file. A check on /var/log/messages shows the following line:
Jan 11 ...
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How to backup virtual drives with PlayOnLinux?
PlayOnLinux installs the applications in separate virtual drives. Each virtual drive represents a different windows machine. I have configured PlayOnLinux on my laptop and installed several programs ...
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How can I configure Wine's default paper settings?
I'm having trouble with the locale settings in my Microsoft Office Wine bottle/prefix. When I created it, I had followed the Gentoo Localization Guide's suggestion to not set LC_ALL. However, when I ...
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Why am I getting an InitDevice::CreateDevice error when I try to run “Pirates of the Caribbean” with Wine?
I am running Ubuntu 11.04 on a Sony Vaio. I am using wine 1.3 to run a rather complex yet archaic gaming program, "Pirates of the Caribbean" (2003; not based off the movie). I started it up and after ...
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How to use 'wine' and AviSynth and Avs2YUV with 'mplayer/mencoder' (or any player/encoder)
I have a lot of AviSynth scripts (.avs) which create a montage of text pics and video, but until yesterday I'd had no luck running AviSynth scripts in 'wine'.
I read about a 'Windows' program called ...
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How to setup wine for networking in linux
How to setup wine for networking?
Unless i have linux access to my windows network, i can't do wine discover the windows network. How to do it?, also wine hasnt cmd line utility so i can't use ...
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Installing IE under linux Ubuntu 10.10
I want to install IE browser in ubuntu 10.10. I have done it using wine but
its not working. Is there any possibility to install IE?
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History of WINE
I will be doing a talk about WINE and how it has changed the situation for new Linux users that come from Windows and how it has matured from the start till know. I have much info already about it and ...
