Wine is a very useful package that can be installed on any Linux distribution for running native Windows applications on Linux.
This package proves to be the best workaround for using all those applications on Linux that you normally enjoy within the Windows environment.
Here at LinuxAPT, as part of our Server Management Services, we regularly help our Customers to perform Software Installation tasks on their Linux Server.
In this context, we shall look into how to install Wine on CentOS 8.
However, if you want to see the method of installing this package on any other Linux distribution, then you can take a look at our article on Wine installation on Linux Mint 20 .
If you wish to install Wine on CentOS 8, then you have to perform the following steps outlined below.
First, you will have to download the Development Tools for Wine for which you need to run the following command on CentOS 8:
$ sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'During the installation of the Development Tools, you will have to provide your consent for once by typing "y".
The Development Tools will take around 20 minutes to download with a moderate Internet speed. Once the Development Tools will be downloaded successfully, you will see the "Complete" message on your terminal.
After downloading the Development Tools, we will also download some other packages by running the command mentioned below:
$ sudo yum install libX11-devel freetype-devel zlib-devel libxcb-develAgain, during the installation of these packages, you will be supposed to provide your consent for once by typing in "y".
Now when all the required packages and dependencies for Wine have been downloaded successfully on your CentOS 8 system, it is the right time to download its source code with the command mentioned below:
$ wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.2.tar.xzAfter successfully downloading the source code of Wine on our CentOS 8 system, we will extract it within a newly created directory named "tmp" in our C drive.
This can be done if we will run the command stated below:
$ tar –xvJf wine-2.0.2.tar.xz –C/tmpIt will take a few seconds to extract all the sub-files and once the extraction process is complete, you will get the control of your CentOS 8 system back.
Now we need to compile this downloaded source code of Wine so that it can be installed on our CentOS 8 system.
For that, we will first have to change the default path of the terminal by navigating to the "tmp" directory (the directory in which the source code files of Wine have been extracted).
We can navigate to this directory with the command shown below:
$ cd /tmp/wine-2.0.2Once you are there in the "tmp" directory, you need to run the following command:
$ ./configure --enable-win64Since we had a 64-bit system that is why we have used the command stated above.
However, if you are working with a 32-bit system, then you can simply run the "./configure" command to serve the very same purpose.
Now you will have to run the command stated below:
$ makeOnce the execution of this command will complete, you will finally have to run the following command to complete the installation process of Wine on CentOS 8.
$ make installAfter following steps # 1 to 4, Wine will be successfully installed on your CentOS 8 system. You can confirm its installation by checking the installed version of Wine with the command shown below:
wine --versionWhenever you want to remove Wine from your CentOS 8 system along with all of its packages and dependencies, you can simply run the command shown below:
$ sudo yum autoremove wineThis article covers how to install Wine on CentOS 8. With the use of this package, you can easily use the native Windows applications on CentOS 8. However, you can also remove this package from your CentOS 8 system to conserve the memory whenever you want.
How to Install Wine 4 on CentOS 8:
Install EPEL Repos on CentOS 8
Wine is not included in the default CentOS 8 repositories but however available on EPEL repos. Therefore, run the command below to install EPEL repos:
$ dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
To run Wine on CentOS 8:
Wine command takes the following syntax.
$ wine program [arguments]
To obtain help on Wine usage;
$ wine --help
Consult man pages for Wine for more insight.
$ man wine
Before you can use Wine to run Windows applications, reboot your system to setup the Wine environment.
$ systemctl reboot
