Install Wine On Ubuntu 10.4
As we talked in our previous post the problem and solution for the Package System Broken Error. Later i was trying to install IE 8 on Ubuntu 10.4. Since i was not having experience in Ubuntu, as usual i googled it and came up with a solution to install any Windows application using Wine. Using Wine you can directly install any windows .exe files.
4. Next,click on Apply to install wine and wait ….until the installation is completed.
Wine is a compatibility layer to run windows applications/software's on Linux based OS like Ubuntu 10.04(Lucid Lynx)/9.10/10.10.The most important fact is that the applications doesn’t required CPU emulation and run at full speed.The Wine can be installed in Ubuntu 10.04 by using command line or Synaptic Package Manager.Wine package contains a program loader which is used to run windows executable(*.exe).
Installing Wine in Ubuntu 10.04 by using Synaptic Package Manager
1. Open Synaptic Package Manager.
2. Click on the Search button and type in 'wine"
3. Then select the row which contains wine 1.2 and mark the package(by checking box) for installation; and click on ok if it asks for dependencies.
3. Then select the row which contains wine 1.2 and mark the package(by checking box) for installation; and click on ok if it asks for dependencies.
4. Next,click on Apply to install wine and wait ….until the installation is completed.
5. Now,you are ready to use wine.
- Once the installations is completed, you can open it from Applications->Wine OR just right click on windows executable(.exe) and select ‘Open With Wine Windows Program Loader’.
There are many other ways using which you can download Wine. Alternate way is to use the terminal.
- Open the terminal and type command sudo apt-get install wine.
