Wine

Jan 15, 2023

Why doesn't Wine work?  You need to install all the fonts.  See below.

Install MSI

wine msiexec /i abc.msi

Run Exe

wine explorer.exe 

Install Fonts

This is the key to get many Windows applications to run!

winetricks -q  allfonts

Other Handy Commands

winetricks list-all | less

All Files are here in Linux

/home/matt/.wine/drive_c

Create a new 64-bit Wine prefix 

bash

WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/64bitprefix winecfg

• WINEARCH=win64: This sets the architecture to 64-bit.

• WINEPREFIX=~/64bitprefix: This specifies a new path for your 64-bit prefix. You can choose any path you like; a common convention is to use ~/.wine64.

• winecfg: Running winecfg will create the new prefix. You can also run any 64-bit installer at this point, as in WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/64bitprefix wine /path/to/installer/install.exe. 

Run a 64-bit program from the new prefix 

bash

WINEPREFIX=~/64bitprefix wine /path/to/your/program.exe

To run both 32-bit and 64-bit applications 

bash

# For a 64-bit application

WINEPREFIX=~/64bitprefix wine Program64.exe

# For a 32-bit application (using a separate 32-bit prefix)

WINEPREFIX=~/32bitprefix WINEARCH=win32 wine Program32.exe