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How to Use Wine on Linux. Wine is an open-source software application that allows Linux users to run Windows programs. This can be helpful for programmers, who have. Installing Windows Software With Wine (Linux Mint 11) This tutorial is supposed to show you how to install.exe files on your Linux system.

Here on this “how to” I’m going to explain how Wine works and show some basic commands to get started with. Wine is a free and open-source software that creates a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on different OS such as Linux, BSD or Mac OSX. I’m not writing much about its history, there are plenty of information. Anyway I like to point out that Wine stand for Wine Is Not an Emulator, that the initial release dates back in 1993 and that more that 1500 developers worked on this project so far.

Wine is mostly used to run games but it can also execute any other application. If you’re interested in trying or switching to Linux but the lack of native ports stops you every time, well, mind that Wine gives the opportunity to run almost every Windows-only games up to DirectX9, it may also outclass the newer Windows OS in terms of compatibility with older software. So expect to successfully run on your Linux machine classics and series like: Bioshock, Fallout, Red Faction, Dead Space, Age of Empires, Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed, Company of Heroes, The Elder Scrolls, Mass Effect, Diablo, Total War and soooooo on you can find some of the games that I personally tested using Wine. On the Wine website there is a full of information where everyone can post an entry of a specific application. I strongly suggest you guys not to get afraid of the fact that Wine is a command-line only software. It is a very straightforward software and once you get how it works you’ll find it very simple and rational. If you’re still too scary about the “evil-terminal” consider using or, which is a software that provides a graphical interface to Wine (I used Play On Linux too), anyway you won’t learn to use Wine by using POL.

(I’m going to make a “how to” for POL soon). If you need help just leave a comment:) That said let’s get started!!. Install Wine from your distro’s repository (Vanilla or Staging?). Why and how create a 32- or 64-bit WINEPREFIX. Install and run an application. GOG and DRM free games. Fix a game with Winetricks.

Wine Staging and Wine Gallium Nine. Install Steam client and games. Create a script to easily install/launch Steam games. Delete, copy, backup a WINEPREFIX. Install different Wine versions. Install Wine from your distro’s repository (Vanilla or Staging?) Alright let’s install Wine from the disto repository.

Wine comes in 2 “flavors”: Wine or Wine Staging (the former is known as “vanilla”). Is a patched Wine version that comes with some additional bug fixes, it normally improves gaming performances so I suggest to install this version. Also you should select a development version instead of a stable version. Wine improves at every new release, if something was working on an old version, it’s very likely that it works even better on a newer version. The 2 version are recognizable by the number after the first period: even numbers for stable versions (such as 1.6, 1.8, 1.8.2 and so on.) odd numbers for development (1.7.43, 1.9.15, etc.) The installation process changes based on which distro you’re using, and some distro (such as Arch Linux) have the very latest version available by default in the repositories, while other distro (Debian, Ubuntu) have a very outdated version and add an external repository would be better. In my case (Arch Linux and derivative) I just need to run: sudo pacman -S wine or sudo pacman -S wine-staging to always install the latest development version straight out of the repositories!.

Why and how create a 32- or 64-bit WINEPREFIX Wine gives the user the ability to create different PREFIXES. This to prevent some applications to break each other, to easily manage 32-bit or 64-bit applications and so on. I always use a clean prefix for every game that I test, unless the games are very similar. I suggest you to do so, while learning, or at least try to separate those games/applications that need some heavy tweaks to get them to run. I also install 32-bit games on a 32-bit prefix, even if they may run on a 64-bit one, so in many cases I won’t be able to get a 64-bit game (such as Planetside 2) on these prefixes, I would need to create a new one. These prefixes are separated virtual Windows drives with different settings.

For example, you may install some software in a prefix and using it as Windows 8, while on another one run some old games in windowed mode, or a 64-bit one where you’re using a patched-wine versions dedicated just to that prefix, etc. Wine creates a default prefix named.wine in the home directory, so if a specific prefix isn’t set, it uses that one. To create a new prefix run this command: WINEPREFIX=/test1 winecfg this will create a wine prefix in your home directory called “test1” and then open the wine configurer. Notice that on a 64-bit system this operation creates a 64-bit wine prefix.

To create a new 32-bit prefix run: WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/test2 winecfg. Install and run an application Now let’s assume that you have 3 games and want to install them on 3 different prefixes (1 of them being 64-bit), then run: WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/game1 wine /Downloads/installer1.exe WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=/game2 wine /Downloads/installer2.exe WINEPREFIX=/game3-64bit wine /Downloads/installer3-64bit.exe These operations create 3 different prefixes and run the game installer on the dedicated prefix! As happens in Windows the installer installs the main game.exe file in the created directory, to run you game redirect Wine to that launcher: WINEPREFIX=/game1 wine /game1/drivec/game1-directory/game1-launcher.exe At this point the game should launch and be playable as in Windows, but in many cases you’ll need to add some DLLs to the clean Wine prefix to get the game to run correctly. Notice that there is no WINEARCH=win32 anymore, this because the prefix is already created and that variable isn’t needed, the architecture is set and won’t change.

To make a clearer example I’ve installed Far Cry 2 (GOG version) on a clean 32-bit prefix, here are the screenshots. But it doesn’t launch too. I’ve also end up with the same situation with a few other games but I find a way to easily bypass this problem. If you check the screenshots above you can see that I unchecked the “create a desktop shortcut” when installing Fallout 1 but this option wasn’t there when installing Fallout 2 with /nogui, instead there is one on where to install some “Start Menu shortcuts”.

At the end I had a Fallout 2 shortcut on my desktop folder, meaning that the /nogui option always create a shortcut (you can see just 1 shortcut icon on the virtual desktop above). And guess what. Fallout 2 runs fine if launched from that shortcut!! But how to get Fallout 1 to correctly launch if I didn’t create a shortcut during the installation??? Well, luckily the GOG installers always create some “Start Menu shortcuts” in a folder named “GOG.com” that by default is located in./wineprefixname/drivec/users/Public/Start Menu/Programs/ GOG.com Anyway to get these shortcut to run you need to run them with: because these are.lnk files and wine throws you an error if you run them the common way. Now both Fallout are running fine.

Some terminal errors referring to Clear Sky Now how to get the game to launch?? Well, I normally follow these steps even before trying to install a game:. If the game requires DirectX10 or 11 it probably won’t run with Wine (AT THE MOMENT!), so before buying/trying a game check if the game uses or at least if there is a supports for DirectX9. Even better if the game supports WindowsXP; if so it’s most likely that it runs perfectly out of the box or with some easy tricks!. Run the game from the terminal to see what errors Wine debugs to you, and focus on the “fixme” that end with “stub”.

Experiment different solutions in different newly created prefixes, if something goes wrong no other application will be afflicted. Take a look at the to see what other users did to get the game to run. Check websites like to see if there are any tricks or tweaks to improve the game performances. Keep in mind that you’re running Windows games with Wine and not native Linux games. If a game is broken on Windows it’ll probably be broken on Wine too, but the same trick to get it to work on Windows should work on Wine. Add some to what Wine already outputs. Most of the time Winetricks solves all the problems that prevent an application to run correctly. Is a software that should be installed together with Wine during the installation from the repository.

In some apt-get based distros you need to add –install-recommends to get winetricks to install. Sudo apt-get install -install-recommends wine With it some Windows libraries (such as d3dx,.NET, vcrun, etc.) can be easily installed and in some cases replacing Wine components with the closed source one. Winetricks can be used both with a GUI or from the command-line.

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In any case I always use it with the -q variable, so that it skips some boring “accept this, accept that” and manage to better install some libraries such as.NET WINEPREFIX=./wineprefix winetricks -q To get S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky to run I had to install “d3dx9”, and I did that straight from the command-line. As I had some other errors pointing an issue with “vcrun” I also installed that one but using the Winetricks as GUI, check the screenshots. Select what to install As you can see there are various vcrun based on what year they were released.

How I did I know that vcrun2005 was this right one? Why not vcrun2008 or the others? Well I actually didn’t know that it was the right one. I just supposed that it was. And something is easy to guess what kind of library you need to install. For example the 3 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

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Games use the, and the first game, Shadows of Chernobyl, was released back in 2007, so I guessed that they worked at the engine/game at least 1-2 years before, thus my guessing to install vcrun2005. Wine Staging and Wine Gallium Nine I post a lot of screenshots of games running with different Wine versions, take a look at these tests to see the differences between them. Mind that Gallium Nine is available only when using the MESA open source drivers, and performs great especially on AMD. I previously suggested to install Wine Staging instead of vanilla Wine and now I’m going to tell how to enable its most important feature: CMST (Commandstream multithreading).

This option can be turned on/off on the winecfg staging tab. Select “enable CMST” CSMT gives better performances by optimizing OpenGL calls,. Normally there is no “enable Gallium Nine” options, continue reading for that one. A Gallium Nine enabled Wine is by far the version that I prefer and it’s likely to run a DirectX9 game with the same Windows performances (sometimes better).

As I said before Gallium Nine is open-source drivers specific and it won’t run with the proprietary Nvidia drivers! Gallium Nine is build on top of the Gallium framework and it comes by default with the open-source drivers. If the CSMT patch optimize the Direct3D calls to OpenGL, Gallium Nine bypass them so the the Direct3D calls go to the Gallium API. There are different ways to enable Gallium Nine, on Ubuntu/Linux Mint there is an external PPA. On Arch Linux I use to install.

To install it, the yaourt way, run: yaourt -S wine-gaming-nine and update it by running (it will also update your entire system and any other AUR packages): yaourt -Syua Then enable it in the Staging tab by checking “enable Gallium Nine”, CSMT will automatically disable if selected (see the screenshot above). That AUR package comes with many other hacks, in particular it fixes the Steam store page and other stuff, that’s why I’m using it even when I’m on Nvidia with the closed source drivers. Install Steam client and games The Windows Steam Client is needed to get Steam Windows games to run on Linux with Wine. Sadly there’s still no chance to install and manage games running with Wine from the Native Linux Client. But this is not a big deal because the Client running with Wine does a great job especially when managing the games dependencies in a clean prefix.

That said let’s install the client in a clean prefix. You can close the client from the icon As I mentioned before I’m using a patched version of Wine that fixes the steam store issue, based on which Wine version you use you may not see the store/discussions/profile pages. Anyway the Library always works, so the games installation! Once the client is installed and works correctly I suggest you to leave that prefix just for Steam, and install a game/s in a different prefix, to prevent some successive tweaks to break Steam. Once it is there, leave it alone:) Steam by default installs the client under the “Program Files” folder (“Program Files (x86)” if using a 64-bit prefix), however I suggest to install the Client before that folder, so it can be easily accessible.

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The Steam client isn’t perfect under Wine, sometimes some errors appears (such as the panel icon not appearing/unresponsive, some random crashes, etc.), anyway the download and installation process work perfectly and, unlike the GOG installers, the Steam client manages the game dependencies extremely well! At this point why not to install a game?!? Steam games can be installed as you already know: open the client, select a game, click install and launch it. BUT I’m going to show you a different way to install the games. An easier way!

Steam recognize every single game with a specific identification number, called “App ID”. These IDs can be found in the url of a specific game when browsing the store page, or in many external websites, such as the very useful.

Steamdb.info With these App ID Steam can install/launch a game straight from the command-line, without the need to scroll your Library to look for the game. In fact with a single command it’s possible to create a new prefix and launch the client straight to the game installation, thanks to this argument: -applaunch App ID so, if the Client is normally launched by running Steam.exe like this wine./Steam/Steam.exe to install/launch a game one can simply add the argument with the correct App ID number: wine./Steam/Steam.exe -applaunch App ID Let’s install Red Faction guerrilla for example! Some DirectX11 errors (which isn’t well implemented in Wine) Well, yes the game is dx9 compatible but it launches by default in dx11 mode, so we have 2 options to get the game to work:.

launch the client and then select the dx9 mode; boring solution, way too many mouse clicks and the -applaunch variable will always end with a crash. Set a launch option so that the game always launch in dx9 mode, also when launching the game with the -applaunch variable from the terminal. Let’s take a look at to see how to tweak our game with some launch options. Set a resolution.

Create a script to easily install/launch Steam games Alright! If you read everything until this point you are probably saying yourself “do I need to always open that goddamn terminal and write all that crap for every single game?”.

NO you don’t! Until now I explained the basics on how wine works and how to use Steam with it. With these solid basis we can now simplify and standardise the way a game is installed/launched by creating a script, to make things way easier and less boring:) This is the way I like to manage my games, you can do the same or use these hints as a source and create something different that fit your needs. I like to put all my shortcuts and prefixes in 2 hidden folders under my home partition, this because I don’t want my home directory to be full of files/folders.

Let’s keep things neat! I’ll call these main folders.launchers and.prefixes create the 2 folders: mkdir.launchers.prefixes allright now let’s create the first shortcuts that will serve as base for the others (I’m using Red Faction Guerrilla as example): nano.launchers/rfguerrilla and edit the empty file with the followings.(scroll down to see how to locate wine): export WINEARCH=win32 export WINEPREFIX=/.prefixes/rfguerrilla WINE=/usr/bin/wine STEAM=/.steam-blog/drivec/Steam/Steam.exe $WINE $STEAM -applaunch 20500 Done! Now I need to make the file executable by running: chmod +x.launchers/rfguerrilla Now the file can be executed from the terminal:.launchers/rfguerrilla at first launch it creates a new 32-bit directory and executes the steam game installation using the specified wine, after the shortcut executes the game! It can be also launched with an application launcher (alt+F2 by default) Now, to install another game (let’s install Red Faction 2) I just need to copy that file (it will be copied as executable): cp.launchers/rfguerrilla.launchers/rf2 modify the wineprefix and App ID: nano.launchers/rf2 export WINEARCH=win32 export WINEPREFIX=/.prefixes/rf2 WINE=/usr/bin/wine STEAM=/.steam-blog/drivec/Steam/Steam.exe $WINE $STEAM -applaunch 20550 and execute the new shortcut to install and lauch the game.launchers/rf2. Enjoy the game:) Now let me install a 64-bit only game, the free-to-play Planetside 2: cp.launchers/rf2.launchers/planetside2 nano.launchers/planetside2 to create a 64-bit prefix just “comment out” the WINEARCH line with # By doing so that line will be ignored so that wine creates a 64-bit prefix #export WINEARCH=win32 export WINEPREFIX=/.prefixes/planetside2 WINE=/usr/bin/wine STEAM=/.steam-blog/drivec/Steam/Steam.exe $WINE $STEAM -applaunch 218230 then launch the game as usual:.launchers/planetside2.

Enjoy planetside 2:) If you’re using the open-source drivers you can easily add the GALLIUM HUD to a game: GALLIUMHUD=fps.launchers/planetside2 There are many other variables and stuff to add to these scripts, here I just wanted to show the basics, but I’m going to write a more specific post soon (link will be here).to locate the path to your default wine run: find / -name winecfg 2/dev/null If you search for “wine” many more path are going to appear, anyway the main Wine binary and “winecfg” are in the same directory. I added “2/dev/null” to skip all the “permission denied” messages. Delete, copy, backup a WINEPREFIX To delete a prefix, and all its content, simply run: rm -rf./prefixname Notice that this operation doesn’t ask confirmation and cannot be undone, so be sure to remove the right prefix eheh.

This is is useful if you created a wrong prefix, if you needed a 64-bit but created a 32-bit-one, to free some space and so on. For other purposes you can copy a prefix or the shortcuts (for example to an external drive): cp -ar./prefixname./directoryname or compress them to save space: tar -zcvf games.tar.gz game1 game2 game3.

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Wine automatically updates the prefix when a change is detected, such as a new Wine version, and the risk of breaking an application is minimal in my opinion, just be sure to respect the right paths!. Install different Wine versions coming soon. Hi, First of all I would like to thank you for this how-to! Secondly, how do you know which dlls you need to include to run a specific game? (Unfortunately on the database of wine not every users point out which dlls are needed) Do you have any advice for this? Also, to use winetricks to install dlls to a specific prefix, are you using this command (?): WINEPREFIX=/game1 winetricks dllname1 dllname2 dllname3? Also according to your screenshot you didn’t enable CSMT in the staging tab, why not?

I think it is the biggest reason to use wine-staging. Maybe you forgot adding a screenshot showing this step. Also can you explain to me what is galium-nine? As I see it in the AUR package in archlinux: Is there a benefit using this package instead?

Thanks for your hardwork. P.S.: English isn’t my mother tongue so please forgive me for any mistakes.

Nonolander Like. Hiya, nice blog entry But, but, but The Wine versioning information, you describe, is now out-of-date (changed this year). Stable releases are now minor versions 2.0.x and development releases are 2.x (with a new major release each year – I think – going forwards). You don’t link to (or even mention) WineHQ AppDB For example I’ve detailed precisely what overrides are needed on the AppDB page for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – For some applications and games WineHQ AppDB can be useful:-) Thanks for the hardwork!