How To Install Wine 6.0 on Fedora 34/33/32

With the increasing popularity of Linux desktops, There is another requirement occurred that we should have an application that can be used to run Windows applications. Windows has a long list of beautiful applications for users who are not available for Linux users. As we know that Linux does not support windows executable so WineHQ is a solution to run Windows applications and Linux systems.

This tutorial explain you to how to install Wine 6.0 Stable Release on a Fedora systems.

Prerequisite

You must have a sudo privileged account for the Wine installation on Fedora.

Wine required many development packages. First, we recommend upgrading all system packages using the following commands.

sudo dnf clean all 
sudo dnf update 

Step 1 – Installing Wine on Fedora

The Fedora team provides rpm packages for the easy installation. You can get the official yum repository provided by Wine team for the installation of latest Wine packages.

sudo dnf -y install dnf-plugins-core 
sudo rpm --import https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key 

Next, add the Wine package repository to your system.

• Fedora 34:

  sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/34/winehq.repo 
  

• Fedora 33:

  sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/33/winehq.repo 
  

• Fedora 32:

  sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/32/winehq.repo 
  

The Winehq repositories for the Fedora 31 and previous versions don’t contain Wine 6 packages. They contain Wine 5 stable release packages.

Finally, run the make and make install command to compile the wine source and install it on your system.

sudo dnf install winehq-stable 

The above command will install a large number of packages as a dependency. The installation may take time as per your network speed. Enjoy a cup of coffee until the installation finishes.

Step 2 – Check Wine Version

After finishing the installation process, Use the following command to check the version of wine installed on your system.

wine --version 

wine-6.0.1

Step 3 – Using Wine

To use wine we need to login to the CentOS/Fedora desktop. After that Download a windows executable (.exe) file like PuTTY on your system and open it with Wine as below screenshot or use following command.

wine putty.exe 

Conclusion

This tutorial helped you to install the Wine 6 stable release on a Fedora Linux system.