Installation of Wine 1.6.

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To install Wine, open the terminal by hitting CTRL + ALT + T from the desktop and run the
following commands one-by-one on the terminal.
$
$
$
$

sudo
sudo
sudo
sudo

add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install wine1.6
apt-get install winetricks

Starting Wine 1.6.2

To start the Wine program, you must give the full path to the .exe program. For example, we will
start the notepad.exe program through wine.
$ wine notepad.exe

Starting Wine in Ubuntu

Configure Wine 1.6.2

The default wine configuration is much enough for running windows applications, but not all
windows based applications run under wine. And in some cases you may required an extra
configuration to run certain applications or adding a new windows drive for mapping CD-ROM
drives.
The wine configuration is done by winecfg utility, so in order to configure wine run the following
command on the terminal.

$ sudo winecfg

Configuring Wine in Ubuntu

To add new drive click on Drives > Add Drive and then give full path of the cdrom. See the
below screenshot.

Adding CD-ROM Drive in Wine

This is very useful for installing games and applications using cdrom with wine under your Ubuntu
box.

Install Windows Softwares Using Winetricks

Winetricks is a small helper script for downloading and installing windows based softwares and
missing DDL files that needed to run some programs under wine. To download and install software
programs, run the winetricks utility from the terminal. Please note that the winetricks current
prefix is users home directory (i.e. /home/user/.wine). So, whatever you install it goes under this
directory.
$ sudo winetricks

Starting Winetricks in Ubuntu

It will ask you one time question about helping winetricks development by submitting reports on
wine statistics. Just click on Yes.

Submit Winetricks Report

Click on OK button to move forward. If you dont want to submit reports to winetricks, then
simple turn-off with the command winetricks optout.

Turn-off Submitting Winetricks Reports

Next, select Install a Windows DLL or component.

Install Software Using Wine

Select the software that you wish to install. Lets say I would like to install Internet Explorer 8.

Download and Install Wine Softwares

The utility automatically download and install the selected software from the winetricks table.

Winetricks Download and Install Softwares

Once, the download and installation completes, it will automatically start the program. See the
screenshot below.

Starting Programs with Wine

You can also start the program by specifying full path of the program like.
$ sudo wine 'C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore'

As I said above that not all programs will work with wine. So, I recommend you to check out the
Wine app database before installing any software through wine.

Uninstalling Windows Software using Winetricks

If you want to uninstall the Internet Explorer with winetricks just type the following command it
will completely delete the program. You also directly delete the program directory from the .wine
directory like shown below.
$ sudo rm -rf .wine/drive_c/Programe\ Files/Internet\ Explorer/

Uninstalling Wine and Winetricks

If you not happy with wine program, you can remove it completely by using the following
command.
$ sudo apt-get remove wine1.6 winetricks