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.
This article will help you to install Wine 3.0 Stable Release on RHEL based systems. The Fedora users can use official yum repository provided by Wine team for the installation of latest Wine packages.
Step 1 – 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 \ libxslt-devel libgcrypt-devel libxml2-devel gnutls-devel \ libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff-devel gstreamer-devel \ dbus-devel fontconfig-devel
Step 2 – 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 https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.x/wine-5.6.tar.xz tar -Jxf wine-5.6.tar.xz cd wine-5.6
Configure wine using one of the following command based on your system architecture. This will set the installation environment for Wine according to your system.
For 32-Bit Systems: ./configure For 64-Bit Systems: ./configure --enable-win64
Finally run the make and make install command to compile wine source and install it on your system.
make make install
Step 3 – 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
Hi
when i run ./configure i don’t get a Makefile file just a Makefile.in file and then when i run the make command i get the message “make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.”
plz help
Hi there!
This is really a nice site, – thanks Rahul. 🙂
However, there exist now a somewhat easier install method from EPEL. And for all those who need also the 32bit Wine variant on latest CentOS 7.x check the harbottle REPO, https://gitlab.com/harbottle/wine32. Most recent version (for July 2019) is Wine 4.0.2.
In short:
# Install repos
sudo yum -y install epel-release https://harbottle.gitlab.io/wine32/7/i386/wine32-release.rpm
# Install Wine 64 bit and 32 bit
sudo yum -y install wine wine.i686
# Run Wine 64 bit, for example:
wine64 cmd
# Run Wine 32 bit, for example:
wine32 cmd
Thank You
Hi
please tell me how i will open winbox ? i haven’t get any option as given in the image .
Hi, Do you have Idea how to install .Net Framework on wine. ?
What should i do if i got libxml2 multilib protected??
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
i am rocking a i7-4790k, and i’m on my second coffee –> LOL
Seriously why its taking to much of hours to compile wine ?
How much time it will take to compile wine ?
I have Intel i3 , 4 GB machine
Before the “make” command I was 24yo and single. After I have now several granchildren.
you nailed it hehehe
will whatsapp work with wine?
Will Bluestacks work in wine?
I want to use whatsapp in bluestacks.
After followed all steps, i got bash: wine: command not found…
Appreciate help
me too
If you have 64 bit machine then “wine” won’t work.
Write wine64 –version
It FAILED at the “make” command. Nothing to make. Stop.
Thank you for this article. Work fine but make continue very long 🙂
(Work in CentOS 7)
Cheers
And….how to uninstall?
That version of wine was not good to install TomTom programs in Fedora 22.
🙁
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
aftar this step “make” is so damn long!!
how to uninstall wine complatly ..? cent os 6
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?
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
i have a problem after installing wine
“Could not find ‘wine'”
please help me.
Hello,
I have same problem. I don’t know what to do ???
Take too much time to make the source and from last hour it is still running
Is there is any solution
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”
Did you find the solution?
Not yet
wine64 –version
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.
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
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
Hi, Did you fix this error ?
Hi,
No I haven’t fixed this error yet.
Hi Aaron, I get the same output, did you fix it somehow ?
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.
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??
Hi Rohit,
I have again checked and successfully extracted file. Might be your download was not completed properly. Please download archive file again.
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
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.specclassinfo.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 =)
Hi Alexis, I get the same problem. How did you deal with it?
Thanks!
Hi,
I am beginner to linux, It shows an error message “not acceptable C compiler found in $PATH”.
Pls suggest me.
Thanks in advance
Hi Sumit,
Please check if you have gcc libraries installed in your system.
grate it’s work
thank you very much …….
how to install ip msg in redhat linux?
Doesn’t work on CentOS 7 64bit, unable to run any EXE. 🙁
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
Hi, U need to install “flex” by:
sudo yum install flex
and eventually another things you get noticed like: Please install the ‘……..’ .
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
I am running 64bit RHEL but want to make the 32 bit version of wine. What is the procedure for that?
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
same thing with my machine, any solutions yet?
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.
Hi Santhoshram,
Add some more yum repositories in your system.
Reg: http://tecadmin.net/top-5-yum-repositories-for-centos-rhel-systems/
Hello sir,
I sucessfully installed wine but run wine –version command them it showing command not found.
Hi Ajeet,
Please check if wine command exists at /usr/local/bin/wine ?
I don’t have wine in that forlder, but I have:
– wine64
– wine64-preloader
– winebuild
– winedump
– wineg++
– winegcc
– wineserver
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
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
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?
I get the same problem as you
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
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?
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
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
Hi Mesaj,
It looks you do not have installed X Window on your system. So install it first.
For CentOS/RHEL 6:
# yum groupinstall “Desktop”
For CentOS/RHEL 5:
# yum groupinstall “GNOME Desktop Environment”
and how to install X Window on Debian Wheezy?
I have same problem with Mesaj
————–
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.
http://mesaj.ct8.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/wine17deps.txt for debian deps list
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!!!
Step 4:
For 32-Bit Systems:
# wine –version
For 64-Bit Systems:
# wine64 –version
On 64bits OS add –enable-win64 before make
$ ./configure –enable-win64
Thanks Raul,
We have updated article accordingly…
this does not work in 64bit Linux machines. when compiling. it gives a error unable to compile 32bit program. needs 32bit libraries.
Hey Amir, did you get it to work on yours? I haven’t been able to get it to work on my CentOS 6.6 64bit.
Good work sir. Thanks for helpful material you have provided for resolving my wine. Keep good work.