.Exe files on Linux
August 27th, 2008 | by jamshed zaidi |
Life becomes easy for windows users and administrator because their favorite software’s are now available on linux. As a Linux System Administrator, if you are running both Linux and windows network in parallel, you need to experience some windows softwares for testing purpose. It is very hard to switch between two OS running in dual boot mode. So for this Wine is there to help you. Wine is developed using Windows Application programming interface (API) which helps in bridging up windows application in Linux. Download wine rpm according to your Operating System distribution and install it. Its has dependencies which need to be resolved
ncurses, ncurses-dev
xlib, xlib-dev
gcc
xpm, xpm-dev
mesage3, mesage3-dev
svga-server
Command to run wine
wine setup.exe
It supports almost everything that you experience in windows
- All DOS base application for win98, winXP, WinME/NT etc.
- Popular audio sound card devices ALSA
- Windows Printing support
- Also supports I/O devices, scanners, CD-ROM/WRITER
- Support for 3-D games with Direct-X
- Display features X-11 support for graphical display
- Windows networking support over TCP/IP layer (winsock)
- Modem internet connectivity support
- Logging of wine for trouble shooting
Get the detailed description from here
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