How to Install WineHQ 1.5.27 on Fedora, CentOS and RHEL Linux Distributions

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How to Install WineHQ 1.5.27 on Fedora, CentOS and RHEL Linux Distributions

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Geekster — 1 Comment ↓

Wine is the most popular application for running Windows software on Linux systems.

In this article I will show you how to install WineHQ 1.5.27 on Fedora 18/17/16, CentOS 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6 and RHEL 6.4/6.3/6.2/6.1/6.

Let’s start. Follow this guide exactly for a successful installation:

Installing Package Dependencies:

1. Packages such as gcc,flex or bison or libX11-devel are needed. So, do this, in your terminal:

$ sudo yum -y groupinstall 'Development Tools'

$ sudo yum -y install libX11-devel freetype-devel

2. Download the wine tarball:

$ wget http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/project/wine/Source/wine-1.5.27.tar.bz2
3. Extract the archive and cd into it:

$ tar -xvf wine-1.5.27.tar.bz2

$ cd wine-1.5.27

4. Install wine:

$ ./tools/wineinstall

This is everything. Enjoy.