Installing the Wine Emulator to Run Microsoft Windows Applications on Red Hat Fedora Core 9 Codename Sulphur

7 September, 2008 (07:40) | Installing Red Hat Fedora Core 9, Windows related | By: redhatfedoracore

Today: Installing the Wine Non - Emulator to Run Microsoft Windows Applications On Red Hat Fedora Core 9 Codename Sulphur

“Wine is not an Emulator.” I thought it was originally written without the use of Microsoft code and .dll files but nowadays it is mostly reverse engineered.  My understanding of an emulator is the it runs native code on a foreign system. Wine actually does that but the authors want to be picky because of some tricky processes that emulate Windows NT kernel processes so it is more than an {en|Emulator|emulator} also.

I have included instructions to installing several Microsoft Windows applications for you to get started with.  You should not use Microsoft Internet Explorer for your everyday browsing.  It is for some sites that will not work in Mozilla Firefox and for web developer testing.  It does not work perfectly.

The instructions for installing Wine are not different on x86-x64 except that Wine is not available in x86-x64 so many i386 dependencies will be loaded along side your existing x86-x64 packages.

Wine creates a separate “Windows” installation for each non-root user.  All Microsoft Windows programs should be loaded for each user that wants access to them.  You should perform the installations of each of your Microsoft Windows programs with every non-root user except for the yum commands which you need to run as root user.

Install Wine Windows Non - Emulator - http://www.winehq.org/

To run some Microsoft Windows applications directly on Linux using an emulator.

  • yum install wine* cabextract freetype.i386 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i386 jack-audio-connection-kit.i386 --exclude=wine-devel
    • As root user.
  • wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
    • Perform this and all the rest of the instructions as a normal user.
  • sh winetricks directx9 corefonts mdac28 allcodecs gecko

Install Winamp 2.91

Fix audio if not already working properly

  • winecfg
    • As non-root user.
  • Single left-click on the Audio tab.
  • Set to whichever works under Sound Drivers to EsounD driver, ALSA driver or OSS driver.
    • I prefer the OSS driver as it seems to have more line options.
  • Single left-click on the square in front of Driver Emulation to check it.
  • Single left-click on Apply to accept changes.
  • Single left-click Test Sound.
  • Turn up your sound levels with the Fedora volume control if you don’t hear a beep.
  • Single left-click on OK.

Install Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 using Wine - http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

To install Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 on Linux. You can run even older versions as well. Not recommended for day to day use. For web developers and testers.

Run these commands from a terminal window in GNOME as a non-root user, not root.

  • yum install cabextract
  • wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
  • tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
  • cd ies4linux-*
  • ./ies4linux --no-gui
    • This will install Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, the default.
    • You may have to run it more than once to properly complete the downloads.
  • ./ies4linux --help
    • For other install options and installing older versions
  • ./ies4linux --beta-install-ie7
    • To install Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 which is still in beta support on Linux.

You will probably get an ui/pygtk/python-gtk.sh: line 6 6156 Aborted error during the install if you try to run ./ies4linux using the GUI interface in Fedora Core 9.  I also had problems running cabextract during the Internet Explorer install on x64 until I closed the terminal window and tried again with a fresh window.

Install Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 using Wine

Get the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1

Download, Open, Install through Internet Explorer.

Install Shockwave for Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 using Wine

Download, Open, Install with Internet Explorer.

Install Windows Media Player 6.4 using Wine - http://tsx.nl/index.php?p=wmp4linux

I’m having trouble playing any media with this right now.  I’ll look into later.

  • mkdir mp64
  • cd mp64
  • wget http://tsx.nl/files/wmp64.tgz
  • tar zxvf wmp64.tgz
  • ./wmp.inst
    • In order to run the installer you must have cabextract installed.
  • ~/bin/wmp6

Some other useful and fun programs

Install Power Archiver 2001 6.11.0

Install Aladdin Expander 5.1.1

Install QuickPar 0.9.1.0

Install Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5

Install WildPackets IP Subnet Calculator 3.2.1

Screen Savers

Run a Microsoft Windows screen saver .scr file with a /C instead of /S to configure.

Install Word Lister 1.0

Install SSN Generator Plus 3.1.1

Install FFG - Fake Filez generator 1.1

Install 123 Free Solitaire 5.8

Some of you might find this link interesting.

http://www.my-guides.net/en/content/view/79/26/

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