Installing WINE on CentOS/RHEL using

source packages
WINE on CentOS/RHEL is installed by compiling it from source packages, so
firstly make sure that we have all the Development Tools installed on our
machine. If the Development Tools are not installed on our machine, we can
install them by executing the following yum command,

$ yum groupinstall ‘Development Tools’

Once the these packages have been installed, we will install some more
packages that are required for WINE,

$ yum install libX11-devel freetype-devel zlib-devel libxcb-devel

Next we will download the source packages for WINE. Though there are
versions available upto 2.14 but those are development versions, latest stable
WINE version in 2.0.2. To download 2.0.2, run the following command,

$ wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.2.tar.xz
After download is complete, we will extract the source package,

$ tar -xvJf wine-2.0.2.tar.xz -C /tmp

$ cd /tmp/wine-2.0.2
Now we will compile & install the WINE packages, please note that
commands are bit different to configure the packages for 32 & 64 bit
packages,

$ ./configure (for 32 bit systems)

$ ./configure –enabled-win64 (for 64 bit systems)
once the packages have been configured, run following commands

$ make
$ make install
That’s it, wine is now installed on your machine. There is another way, you
can install WINE on CentOS/RHEL & that way is by using the EPEL
repository, process for which is detailed below,

Installing WINE on CentOS/RHEL using

source packages using EPEL repository
We can easily install WINE with single command using EPEL but it does not
have the latest wine stable releases, that’s the advantage of installing WINE
from source packages (you get the latest). To install WINE using EPEL
repository, we will first install & enable EPEL repository on our machines,
using

For Centos/RHEL 7
$ rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-
10.noarch.rpm
CentOS/RHEL 6 64 bit
$ rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-
8.noarch.rpm
CentOS/RHEL 6 32 bit
$ rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-
8.noarch.rpm
After installing EPEL repository, we will install wine by running,

$ yum install wine

This will install wine on the machine.

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Installation of WINE on Ubuntu
There are two ways that you can install latest version on WINE on Ubuntu,
first way is by using source packages (same way we used for CentOS
installation) but I can guess given the way second way is very easy, you are
most likely to opt second option for installation i.e. by adding official repository
& then installing WINE from the repository,

To add the official wine repository on Ubuntu, run

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds

Now, run

$ sudo apt-get update

to update system of the repository & finally run the following command to
install it on system,

$ sudo apt-get install winehq-devel

Now to run an application using wine (for both CentOS/RHEL & Ubuntu),
download the .exe for the package to run. Then open terminal & run,

$ wine windows_app.exe
That will make the ‘exe’ to execute with wine application.