Short tutorial on how to run a wide selection of Windows native programs on Linux using Wine.


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Hi, everyone and welcome to this tutorial on how to run Windows programs on Linux. In this case, we are using Wine and combination with the latest version of Linux Ubuntu HEF and we also have a copy Microsoft Windows XP running on the second partition. Okay, first of all, we have to get Wine, the programs so we go on to the Wine homepage and go to the download section and check for distribution. In this case, it is Ubuntu so we are going to click on that. And now basically, we only have to follow these single steps. First, we open the terminal and at the key of the repository to a list of trusted F keys. So, we just copy and paste the given code into the terminal. Now, we add the repository itself to our systems list of apt sources. Now, we are ready to install Wine and we run a pseudo apt get update and the pseudo apt get update install Wine. So, that is it. Now we are ready to run Windows programs on our Linux Ubuntu system. If we want to install the Windows program, we would now have to browse to the set up file of that program and run it with Wine but in this case since we have Windows on the same machine and all its programs, we simply can browse to the program file itself. In this case, we are browsing to a program called Filezilla and simply have to pick a line and we enter the path in the terminal and put Wine as command in front and there you go. We have Filezilla, Windows program running on the Linux. Of course, we can also use other applications like Winamp for example. Again, we put the path in here in the terminal. Put the Wine command in front and have Winamp runing. Now, to make this a little more handy, what we can do is we open a text editor as root and enter the flow-in line, and then also on the next line, we put the command of which we launched the Filezilla program. We can just copy-paste that from the terminal. And now we save that file in our bin folder and name it Filezilla.sh and now we only have to make this file executable. From now on, we can start Filezilla by opening the terminal and typing in Filezilla.sh and the program will start. So, I hope you like this tutorial and I will see you next time.