How to install Wine in OpenSuse 10.3
Posted by admin on May 13th, 2008
As most of us know, Wine is an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X, OpenGL and Unix. Wine is a Microsoft Windows Emulator for Linux which acts as a compatibility layer for running Windows programs on Linux thereby eliminating the need for Windows and allows users to run Windows based applications on Linux. Wine is completely comprises of non-Microsoft code, however Wine can optionally use native Windows DLLs if they are available. Wine provides both a development toolkit for porting Windows source code to Unix as well as a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows programs to run on x86-based Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OSX, Sun Solaris and other UNIX versions.
To install the Wine on OpenSuse 10.3
Add Wine Repositories for OpenSuse 10.3
OpenSuse:/ # zypper sa http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_10.3/ “Wine Repository”
Install Wine
OpenSuse:/ # yast2 –install wine
Install CabExtract
Cab Extract is a free opensource software to extract Microsoft cab files from installers. This should be installed by default. If so, yast2 will report it to be already installed
OpenSuse:/ # yast2 –install cabextract
To verify installation,
OpenSuse:/ # rpm -qa wine cabextract
wine-0.9.62_aka_1.0.rc1-3.1
cabextract-1.2-57
Now, you are ready to install Windows applications on your OpenSuse 10.3
June 20th, 2009 at 4:03 am
i am a beginner in suselinux.
please let me know how to proceded step by step.
i have downloaded a tar file of wine from net.
now how to proceed?
sould i open terminan and enter commands? if so what is the command?
can i directly install by double clicking?
my install software doesnot recognise this progrmme,what to doo?
August 5th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
If you got to OpenSuSe Wine page you can do the one button download and install through Yast. Then it will also add the repository to your software search engine. It is not in there by default. I am running 86_64 and still finding Prob here and there. Though in 32 I had no prob.
August 20th, 2010 at 7:21 am
..ts simple if you have a linux suse package ol what you have to do is, run yast and on the search bar plot write ‘wine’ while the dvd bootable of suse is in, then after u saw it, select it to install, after thet go to te command option and write/type ‘winecfg’ then a dialog for wine configuration and settings will appera.. keep enjoyn the code..!
September 1st, 2010 at 6:00 am
how do install wine and sound codecs without internet access on open suse because the .deb package doesnt work
September 10th, 2010 at 8:32 am
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