How To Install Wine 2.0 on CentOS, RHEL & Fedora

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Rahul K.
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Why use Wine:

With the increasing popularity of Linux desktops, There is another requirement occurred that we should have an application which can be used to run windows applications. Windows has a long list of beautiful applications for users which 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.

Wine 2.0 Stable Release has been released on Jan 24, 2017. The main highlights of this release are full support for window transparency, and the new Mono package for .NET applications support.

This article will help you to install Wine 2.0 Stable Release on RHEL based systems.

Installing Prerequisite

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

# yum clean all
# yum update

Now install required packages for Wine using yum package manager using following commands.

# yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
# yum install libX11-devel freetype-devel zlib-devel libxcb-devel

Install Wine

RPM packages for wine are not available for latest versions, So we need to download wine source code. Use below commands to download it.

# cd /usr/src
# wget http://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/2.0/wine-2.0.tar.bz2
# tar xjf wine-2.0.tar.bz2
# cd wine-2.0

Configure wine using one of following command based on your system architecture.

For 32-Bit Systems:
# ./configure

For 64-Bit Systems:
# ./configure  --enable-win64

Finally compile wine source with make command

# make
# make install

Check Wine Version

Use the following command to check version of wine installed on your system

On 32-Bit Systems:
# wine --version

On 64-Bit Systems:
# wine64 --version

How to Use Wine

To use wine we need to login to GUI 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

Install Wine

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75 Comments

  1. Vitisha Reply to Vitisha
    April 25, 2017 at 12:18 pm

    Hi, Do you have Idea how to install .Net Framework on wine. ?

  2. Fiki Hafana Reply to Fiki
    September 23, 2016 at 3:12 pm

    What should i do if i got libxml2 multilib protected??

  3. gabe Reply to gabe
    August 8, 2016 at 5:53 pm

    do this and you will be able to install it

    RHEL/CentOS 6 32-64 Bit

    ## RHEL/CentOS 6 32-Bit ##

    # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
    # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

    ## RHEL/CentOS 6 64-Bit ##
    # wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
    # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

  4. pettet Reply to pettet
    April 7, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    i am rocking a i7-4790k, and i’m on my second coffee –> LOL

  5. Arvind Reply to Arvind
    April 4, 2016 at 11:41 am

    Seriously why its taking to much of hours to compile wine ?

  6. Arvind Reply to Arvind
    April 4, 2016 at 11:39 am

    How much time it will take to compile wine ?

    I have Intel i3 , 4 GB machine

  7. imnotabot Reply to imnotabot
    March 16, 2016 at 9:04 am

    Before the “make” command I was 24yo and single. After I have now several granchildren.

  8. huzaifa Reply to huzaifa
    March 1, 2016 at 6:59 am

    will whatsapp work with wine?

  9. huzaifa Reply to huzaifa
    March 1, 2016 at 6:51 am

    Will Bluestacks work in wine?
    I want to use whatsapp in bluestacks.

  10. Dhasthakir Reply to Dhasthakir
    January 28, 2016 at 12:45 pm

    After followed all steps, i got bash: wine: command not found…

    Appreciate help

  11. RCB Reply to RCB
    November 26, 2015 at 12:04 am

    It FAILED at the “make” command. Nothing to make. Stop.

  12. Mioslaw Slawinski Reply to Mioslaw
    November 5, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Thank you for this article. Work fine but make continue very long 🙂

    (Work in CentOS 7)

    Cheers

  13. Murpholino Peligro Reply to Murpholino
    October 25, 2015 at 2:18 am

    And….how to uninstall?
    That version of wine was not good to install TomTom programs in Fedora 22.
    🙁

  14. neha Reply to neha
    October 11, 2015 at 6:10 pm

    Hello sir,
    I sucessfully installed wine but while running wine putty.exe – it shows winr command not found. I am having centos 7 64 bit. What to do?
    Thanks

  15. rio Reply to rio
    October 11, 2015 at 4:14 am

    aftar this step “make” is so damn long!!

  16. ali Reply to ali
    September 21, 2015 at 5:40 am

    how to uninstall wine complatly ..? cent os 6

  17. payam Reply to payam
    August 21, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    hi
    I got these errors:

    winebuild: task.o is an empty file
    winegcc: ../../tools/winebuild/winebuild failed
    make[1]: *** [taskschd.dll.so] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/usr/src/wine-1.7.45/dlls/taskschd’
    make: *** [dlls/taskschd] Error 2

    How can I fix this?

  18. Apollo Reply to Apollo
    August 20, 2015 at 1:32 pm

    it doesnt work on Centos 7 dont even try it as the comand make will take ages ha ha but at the end no solution

  19. Joshua Reply to Joshua
    July 22, 2015 at 6:12 am

    i have a problem after installing wine

    “Could not find ‘wine'”

    please help me.

  20. arjun Reply to arjun
    June 27, 2015 at 6:34 am

    Take too much time to make the source and from last hour it is still running

  21. jerry Reply to jerry
    May 26, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Thank you so much for this article, but it seems like, i did something wrong

    [email protected] wine-1.7.42]# wine64 –version

    fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L”MountMgr” failed to start: 2
    wine: cannot find L”C:\windows\system32\2013version.exe”

  22. Jim Reply to Jim
    March 11, 2015 at 10:28 am

    hello, I use RHEL 6.5, when I type ./configure –enable-win64, it will show as follows:
    configure: OpenCL development files not found, OpenCL won’t be supported.
    configure: OSS sound system found but too old (OSSv4 needed), OSS won’t be supported.

    After I make install and type wine64 putty.exe, it doesn’t work as follows:
    fixme:urlmon:InternetBindInfo_GetBindString not supported string type 20
    fixme:wininet:set_cookie Unknown additional option L”Max-Age=315360000; Path=/”
    fixme:wininet:set_cookie Unknown additional option L”Max-Age=315360000; Path=/”
    fixme:wininet:set_cookie Unknown additional option L”Max-Age=315360000; Path=/”
    fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
    fixme:urlmon:InternetBindInfo_GetBindString not supported string type 20
    fixme:wininet:set_cookie Unknown additional option L”Max-Age=315360000; Path=/”
    fixme:wininet:set_cookie Unknown additional option L”Max-Age=315360000; Path=/”
    fixme:wininet:set_cookie Unknown additional option L”Max-Age=315360000; Path=/”
    fixme:ntdll:NtLockFile I/O completion on lock not implemented yet
    fixme:dwmapi:DwmIsCompositionEnabled 0x6d1e8a90
    fixme:iphlpapi:NotifyIpInterfaceChange (family 0, callback 0x69e5e647, context 0x7a13b0, init_notify 0, handle 0x102e160): stub
    fixme:iphlpapi:CancelMibChangeNotify2 (handle (nil)): stub
    wine: configuration in ‘/root/.wine’ has been updated.

    Did you encounter this kind of bug? Thanks in advance.

  23. Jed Reply to Jed
    January 16, 2015 at 12:30 am

    Hi Rahul,

    Thanks for this excellent article – I hope you will be able to help:
    – I have followed steps above methodically for OS Linux 6.6 64bit
    – Everything seems to be installed perfectly as I went through all the steps without any issues
    – However I could not run wine64 -version (single dash) or wine -version, wine64 –version returns wine-1.7.34
    – When I double clicked on .exe file nothing happens (including putty.exe)
    – I tried right clicked on “open with wine windows program loader” it is not doing anything too
    – I then tried command wine64 (as wine itself is not a recognisable command) start /Unix “$root/Desktop/putty.exe” it gives error “Application could not be started, or no application associated with the specified file. ShellExecuteEx failed: Internal error.”

    Can you please help?

    Thanks,

    Jed

    • Aaron Moffatt Reply to Aaron
      July 17, 2015 at 1:22 am

      I Jed, I tried doing that and I received these error messages over and over:

      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
      err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
      fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
      err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder

  24. Santosh Reply to Santosh
    January 4, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    Actually I wanted to run vlc and for that I need to install wine. After following steps, it is working successfully. Thanks for sharing with us.

  25. Rohit Khirid Reply to Rohit
    December 18, 2014 at 6:10 am

    bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

    How do i go about this??

  26. Syber Raith Reply to Syber
    November 24, 2014 at 9:42 pm

    GNUTLS headers are being found although GNUTLS libraries are evading detection. They are located on my system in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu, and even with the LDFLAGS or GNUTLS_LIBS environment varible set to that directory, configure still fails to find the libraries.

    I am building with Debian Jessie on an AMD64 system.
    I have installed debian packages for:
    libgnutls-deb0-28
    libgnutls-openssl27
    libgnutlsxx28
    libgnutls28-dev

  27. Alexis Reply to Alexis
    November 23, 2014 at 5:22 am

    Hi, I have a question: How long?… I mean, I’ve did it some hours ago, but it sill doing that:
    (insert a lot of code here LOL)
    ../../tools/winegcc/winegcc -o ieframe.dll.fake -B../../tools/winebuild -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -shared ieframe.spec
    classinfo.o client.o dochost.o events.o frame.o ie.o ieframe_main.o iehtmlwnd.o iexplore.o
    intshcut.o navigate.o oleobject.o persist.o shellbrowser.o shelluihelper.o urlhist.o view.o
    webbrowser.o ieframe.res ieframe_v1_t.res ieframe_v1_r.res -luuid -lurlmon -lshell32 -lcomctl32
    -lshlwapi -loleaut32 -lole32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -ladvapi32 -lwine ../../libs/port/libwine_port.a -lm

    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/wine-1.7.28/dlls/ieframe'
    config.status: creating dlls/ieframe/tests/Makefile
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/wine-1.7.28/dlls/ieframe/tests'
    gcc -c -o ie.o ie.c -I. -I../../../include -D__WINESRC__ -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe
    -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wempty-body -Wignored-qualifiers
    -Wstrict-prototypes -Wtype-limits -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wvla -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith
    -gdwarf-2 -gstrict-dwarf -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g -O2
    gcc -c -o intshcut.o intshcut.c -I. -I../../../include -D__WINESRC__ -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe
    -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wempty-body -Wignored-qualifiers
    -Wstrict-prototypes -Wtype-limits -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wvla -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith
    -gdwarf-2 -gstrict-dwarf -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g -O2
    gcc -c -o webbrowser.o webbrowser.c -I. -I../../../include -D__WINESRC__ -D_REENTRANT -fPIC -Wall -pipe
    -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wempty-body -Wignored-qualifiers
    -Wstrict-prototypes -Wtype-limits -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wvla -Wwrite-strings -Wpointer-arith
    -gdwarf-2 -gstrict-dwarf -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g -O2" etc...

    Thanks =)

  28. Sumit Reply to Sumit
    October 26, 2014 at 9:28 am

    Hi,

    I am beginner to linux, It shows an error message “not acceptable C compiler found in $PATH”.

    Pls suggest me.
    Thanks in advance

  29. vaibhav atalkar Reply to vaibhav
    October 7, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    grate it’s work
    thank you very much …….

  30. saikrishna Reply to saikrishna
    September 30, 2014 at 7:50 am

    how to install ip msg in redhat linux?

  31. Mr P Reply to Mr
    September 13, 2014 at 1:42 pm

    Doesn’t work on CentOS 7 64bit, unable to run any EXE. 🙁

  32. molz Reply to molz
    September 13, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    Hello,
    the line *# ./configure –enable-win64*
    give me this answer : “configure: error: no suitable flex found. Please install the ‘flex’ package.”
    then, make and make install answer “makefile hasn’t been found”…
    thx you

  33. Shashi Reply to Shashi
    August 21, 2014 at 9:14 pm

    how to uninstall wine? I followed the steps on Centos 6.5 final 64bit but when i tried checking the version it says

    [[email protected] wine-1.7.23]# wine
    bash: wine: command not found

  34. G Murakami Reply to G
    August 12, 2014 at 8:38 pm

    I am running 64bit RHEL but want to make the 32 bit version of wine. What is the procedure for that?

  35. Kamran Tayyab Reply to Kamran
    August 3, 2014 at 7:58 pm

    Hey I get this error;

    configure: WARNING: prelink not found, base address of core dlls won’t be set correctly.

    configure: WARNING: libxrender development files not found, XRender won’t be supported.

    configure: WARNING: No OpenGL library found on this system.
    OpenGL and Direct3D won’t be supported.

    configure: WARNING: libxslt development files not found, xslt won’t be supported.

    configure: WARNING: libgnutls development files not found, no schannel support.

    configure: WARNING: libjpeg development files not found, JPEG won’t be supported.

    configure: WARNING: libpng development files not found, PNG won’t be supported.

    configure: WARNING: No sound system was found. Windows applications will be silent.

    Could you help me solve this? Thanks

  36. santhoshram Reply to santhoshram
    July 17, 2014 at 6:34 am

    Hi, sir
    am new bea for redhat linux6…before installation wine package is neccessary to install any “Development tool” or libx11-devel*** package but i tried with yum install utility but it shown me “No Package available”…..where should i get these packages….please suggest me.

  37. ajeet Reply to ajeet
    June 14, 2014 at 10:04 am

    Hello sir,
    I sucessfully installed wine but run wine –version command them it showing command not found.

    • Rahul K. Rahul Reply to Rahul
      June 16, 2014 at 7:52 am

      Hi Ajeet,

      Please check if wine command exists at /usr/local/bin/wine ?

    • Leo Reply to Leo
      July 24, 2014 at 12:01 pm

      For 64 bit systems run wine64 –version

      [[email protected] wine-1.7.22]$ /usr/local/bin/wine64 –version
      wine-1.7.22
      [[email protected] wine-1.7.22]$ wine64 –version
      wine-1.7.22

      • Aaron Moffatt Reply to Aaron
        July 17, 2015 at 12:42 am

        When I run these commands, I get all these error messages over and over

        fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
        err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
        err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
        fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
        err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
        err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
        fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
        err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder
        err:wincodecs:PngEncoder_CreateInstance Trying to save PNG picture, but PNG support is not compiled in.
        fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no instance created for interface {00000103-a8f2-4877-ba0a-fd2b6645fb94} of class {27949969-876a-41d7-9447-568f6a35a4dc}, hres is 0x80004005
        err:menubuilder:convert_to_native_icon error 0x80004005 creating bitmap encoder

  38. walterbyrd Reply to walterbyrd
    June 12, 2014 at 5:27 pm

    According to the README file I need to run.

    ./tools/wineinstall

    But when I try, I get this:

    > The source directory is not writable. You probably extracted the sources as root.
    > You should remove the source tree and extract it again as a normal user.

    I don’t understand. This tutorial shows doing everything as root. What exactly is involved in
    “remove the source tree and extract it again” ?

    Shouldn’t I be able to just do a chown, and a chmod?

    When I try to run wine as root I get:

    > You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as a user.
    > Aborting.

    Any advice?

  39. walterbyrd Reply to walterbyrd
    June 12, 2014 at 5:17 pm

    Does not work for me.

    Followed every step, everything seemed to work, but then I get this:

    [[email protected] wine-1.7.19]# /usr/src/wine-1.7.19/wine –version
    wine: could not find the Wine loader in /usr/src/wine-1.7.19

  40. Code Reply to Code
    June 7, 2014 at 6:16 pm

    No work for me, i have centos 6.5 64 bit,
    my aplications open and close automatic
    i install all ok but dnt work
    need previus versions install to install this?

  41. [email protected] Reply to [email protected]
    May 26, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    i m a beginner to RHEL i want to ask i have created yum server on my system using my DVD
    as soon as i input yum command for the group install it shows
    ‘Setting up Group Process
    Warning: Group Development tools does not exist.
    No packages in any requested group available to install or update’
    please solve my issue

  42. Mesaj Reply to Mesaj
    May 20, 2014 at 10:52 am

    configure: error: X development files not found. Wine will be built
    without X support, which probably isn’t what you want. You will need
    to install development packages of Xlib/Xfree86 at the very least.
    Use the –without-x option if you really want this.

    when I’m trying to build on 64bit centos

  43. JustRosy Reply to JustRosy
    May 18, 2014 at 2:48 pm

    Thank you so much for this article! It’s the only one I’ve been able to find that works, after a long week of searching for answers! You should package this somehow and get CentOS to include it in their next build! (I’m new, so I don’t know if that’s possible, but if it is, you should!) Thank you!!!

  44. Alexey Reply to Alexey
    May 6, 2014 at 12:01 pm

    Step 4:
    For 32-Bit Systems:
    # wine –version
    For 64-Bit Systems:
    # wine64 –version

  45. Raul Reply to Raul
    May 2, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    On 64bits OS add –enable-win64 before make
    $ ./configure –enable-win64

  46. amir Reply to amir
    April 30, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    this does not work in 64bit Linux machines. when compiling. it gives a error unable to compile 32bit program. needs 32bit libraries.

  47. K.Sudhakar Reply to K.Sudhakar
    April 25, 2014 at 12:34 pm

    Good work sir. Thanks for helpful material you have provided for resolving my wine. Keep good work.

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