Wine in Linux
by Vinutha[ Edit ] 2009-04-10 17:42:36
Wine makes it possible to run Windows programs in Unix-like operating system, particularly Linux. Wine is an implementation of the Windows Application Programing Interface (API) library, acting as a bridge between the Windows program and Linux.To install wine we must use the command
yum install wine for Normal users utilizing the Fedora repository should be able to use yum to install the packages.Others For eg (Red hat Linux users)can download wine from any site.
After wine has been installed and to extract the tar.bz2 file is to use
tar -xvjf file.tar.bz2
and to extract a tar.gz we must use,
tar -xvzf file.tar.gz command.