Install Wine 1.7.19 On Fedora / RHEL / CentOS

Wine HQ is a Open Source software available for LINUX Operating systems for running Windows application.

In this tutorial I will show you how to install the latest development version of wine 1.7.19 on Fedora 20/19/18/17 , CentOS 6.5/6.4/6.3 and Redhat 6.5/6.4/6.3.

Wine supports on Linux,solaris,Free BSD for running windows applications.

New in Wine 1.7.19

• New JSProxy DLL for automatic proxy configuration.
• More OLE Accessible Object support.
• Improvements to the XML writer.
• Fixes for various memory issues found by Valgrind.
• Initial headers for Direct2D support.
• Various bug fixes.

Installation steps

Step 1:Install Dependency packages

yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'

yum -y install libX11-devel freetype-devel

Step 2:Download Wine 1.7.19

Ther is no repository for wine installation,manually we need to download the tar file for installing the wine

wget http://kaz.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.7.19.tar.bz2

Step 3:extract the Package and install wine 1.7.19

tar -xvf wine-1.7.19.tar.bz2 -c /tmp/

For 32 bit systems

cd wine-1.7.19/
./tools/wineinstall

For 64 bit systems

./configure--enable-wine64

make 

makeinstall

After successfull installation check working or not by opening any windows application

wine notepad.exe