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This command is run from the GNOME menu or the Terminal Activity. Using the 'wine' interface to run Microsoft Windows applications. The GUI will probably not integrate comfortably with the Sugar environment, but should work okay with GNOME. Your user experience may vary considerably depending on the established environment and the other programs running on the laptop, and may need re-installation after an OS Update. See the Microsoft Windows software category for similar commands.

Introduction

Wine Is Not an Emulator (WiNE) is an software environment for running Microsoft Windows based software. Not all MS Windows based software will run correctly. Most written for Windows 2000, or earlier will work. Few written especially for Windows XP or later will work. Running under wine is not activity or sugar compatible. This information is for reference, in case a specific Windows application is needed for the XO Laptop. Check category:windows software for other MS Windows software which have tested under wine and the XO/Sugar environment.

Installation

Dependencies

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 Package                 Arch       Version          Repository        Size 
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Installing:
 wine                    i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   19 k
Installing for dependencies:
 audiofile               i386       1:0.2.6-6.fc7    olpc_koji-update1  107 k
 desktop-file-utils      i386       0.12-4.fc7       olpc_koji-update1   51 k
 esound-libs             i386       1:0.2.38-2.fc7   olpc_koji-update1   30 k
 lcms                    i386       1.16-3           olpc_koji-update1  172 k
 libxslt                 i386       1.1.21-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1  523 k
 mesa-libGLU             i386       6.5.2-13.fc7     olpc_koji-update1  204 k
 wine-capi               i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   24 k
 wine-cms                i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   36 k
 wine-core               i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1  9.6 M
 wine-esd                i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   33 k
 wine-jack               i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   35 k
 wine-ldap               i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   85 k
 wine-nas                i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   22 k
 wine-tools              i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1  606 k
 wine-twain              i386       0.9.49-1.fc7     olpc_koji-update1   44 k

Transaction Summary
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Install     16 Package(s)         

Total download size: 12 M

Running

$ wine [APPLICATION.EXE]

Optimizing

(and customization)

winecfg

• Able to update between Windows 95, 98, 2000, and NT based environments.

DCOM98

• Replacement for 'ole32.dll' and 'oleaut32.dll'.

mfc40.dll

• Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) 4.0 dynamically linked libraries, for programs which use the MFC for development.

Notes

• Not all software will run well under 'wine' mode. Definitely not Sugar compatible.

Other resources

• See Category:Windows software for complete collection of known wine tested, windows based software.

References

• See http://winehq.org for more information about wine.
• http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ for various wine related tools.