Wine: Running Windows Applications on Linux
1 Introduction
Hello everyone! Want to run a Windows application on Linux and finding it complicated? Don't worry! It's actually very easy... just follow this tutorial.
2 Installation
As usual:
3 Configuration
What's next? Do we need to configure lots of things like bottles and all that stuff? Actually no, the latest versions are well-made and the setup is super quick. We'll run winecfg which will create our little environment:
Make sure the drives are properly displayed. Then click OK.
4 Launching the application
Here, I'll use Spider Solitaire as an example. It's a small game on Windows found at c:\windows\system32\spider.exe. Simply copy it to /home/$USER/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32. As you can see, I placed it exactly in the same location as it was on Windows.
Now we're ready to launch it (with the absolute path):
Hurray, it works! :-)