Wine is a free and open source software application lets you to run windows software on any Unix-like operating systems. With the help of wine you can install and run any windows software on Linux, Mac, FreeBSD, and Solaris, just like you would do in Windows.

On April 13, 2012, Wine 1.5.2 has been released, this is a bi-weekly Wine development build that comes with some improvements and bug fixes.

Wine 1.5.2 Features

1. Improved naming scheme for audio devices.
2. Better support for finding system fonts on Mac OS X.
3. Beginnings of support for JPEG encoding.
4. Several printing fixes.
5. Improvements to the URL cache.
6. Various bug fixes.

For a complete change-log, visit http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.2.

This howto guide shows how to install Wine 1.5.2 on RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, Linux Mint and Debian using source code for RHEL, CentOS, Fedora and apt-get for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian.

Install Wine 1.5.2 on RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, Linux Mint and Debian

Installing ine 1.5.2 in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora

1. We use here source code to install latest Wine 1.5.2 on RHEL, CentOS, Fedora distributions. Run the following commands as normal user to install the latest wine.

## Download the wine source code using wget command ##
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.2.tar.bz2
OR
wget http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.5.2.tar.bz2

2. Install latest version of flex 2.5.33 dependency package for wine (you must be root user to do).

wget ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os/Packages/flex-2.5.33-11.fc8.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh flex-2.5.33-11.fc8.i386.rpm

3. Extract the downloaded Wine packages (as normal user) using tar command.

tar -xvf wine-1.5.2.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.5.2

4. Use the Wine Installer to build and install the Wine. It takes while to complete the compilation (but in the middle of compilation process it will ask you to enter root password).

./tools/wineinstall

5. Configure and build the wine installation.

./configure
make

Installing ine 1.5.2 in Ubunut, Debian and Linux Mint

We use Wine PPA to install latest version of Wine on Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10, Linux Mint and Debian. To install, open the terminal and enter the following command.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine1.5

Running Wine

When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable, or a filename only. For examples, to run Notepad.

## using the search Path ##
wine notepad
wine notepad.exe 

## using DOS filename syntax ##
wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe

For other Linux distributions you can also check out source code installation above or check out the download page for your distribution at Download Page. For older version of Wine packages and their installation instruction can be found on below address.

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