Wine
| 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.
SugaredWine activity
http://wiki.winehq.org/SugaredWine is a project that has created a WiNE.xo activity specific to the XO.
- Now uploaded locally as file:wine.xo
Notes on manual installation
You may be able to install and run WiNE from the command line, like other Linux software.
Dependencies ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= 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 ============================================================================= Install 16 Package(s) Total download size: 12 M
Optimizing
(and customization)
winecfg
- Able to update between Windows 95, 98, 2000, and NT based environmen
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.
Visual Basic 6
- Various Visual Basic 6 libraries
- (microsoft site, down .exe
- Includes
- (complete list here)
Notes
- Not all software will run well under 'wine' mode. Definitely not Sugar compatible.
- Picasa ships with a 'wine' optimized for picasa. Wine is located in /opt/picasa/wine/bin/wine, you can run it directly from there.
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.