Wine
About
Wine is an open source implementation of the Windows API ontop of X and OpenGL. The packages are split up to allow for smaller installations. To install Wine, one can install the wine meta package which will bring with it the most important components of Wine. Expert users may want to pick specific components from the list below:
| name | summary |
| wine-capi | ISDN support for wine |
| wine-cms | Color Management for wine |
| wine-core | Wine core package |
| wine-devel | Wine development environment |
| wine-ldap | LDAP support for wine |
| wine-tools | Additional wine tools |
| wine-twain | Twain (image scanning) support for wine |
| wine-openal | OpenAL sound support for wine |
| wine-pulseaudio | PulseAudio support for wine |
| wine-alsa | ALSA sound support for wine |
| wine-jack | JACK sound support for wine |
| wine-esd | ESD sound support for wine |
| wine-oss | OSS sound support for wine |
| wine-nas | NAS sound support for wine |
Additional documentation is provided via the wine-docs package.
Fedora
Active Fedora Versions: F-8, F-9, devel(F-10)
Current Versions:
| stable | 1.0-rc3 |
| updates-testing | 1.0 |
| devel | 1.0 |
Fedora packages can be found at [1] or installed via yum as stated above.
RHEL/Centos
Active EPEL Versions: EL-4, EL-5
Current Version: 1.0
RHEL/Centos packages can be found at [2] or installed via yum as stated above if the epel repository is enabled. To learn more about EPEL take a look at Self:EPEL.
Bugs and Problems
Due to a kernel feature in Fedora 9 (and rawhide) wine may not run. If this is the case please read http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem to verify if these problems relate to this bug.
Current Fedora Wine Bugs: 4
| #bug | description |
| 438578 | Menu problems |
Reporting Bugs
Before reporting bugs against wine please make sure your system is up-to-date.
yum upgrade
Also check if a newer version is available in updates-testing
yum --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade wine
Please make sure before reporting bugs that you have at least the wine meta package (+ dependencies) installed
Then check in the Wine Application Database [3] if your application is supported and the bug is a packaging bug and not a bug/missing feature in wine.
The next step is to check in the above list if your packaging bug has already been reported.
If you are using the proprietary graphic drivers from ati or nvidia please remove them from your system and try again as they are known to cause problems.
The next step is to see if the problem persists with a clean ~/.wine folder. To try this without losing your old configuration do something like
mv ~/.wine ~/.wine-save
Afterwards try to trigger the bug again. Your original wine folder can be restored with
rm -fr ~/.wine; mv ~/.wine-save ~/.wine
If your application still does not work but has been working in a previous version of wine it is probably a regression. Take a look a the [4] wine application database and consider filling a bug in the winehq bugzilla [5] .
If you really think that your bug is packaging related file a bug against the wine component at [6] .
1. Installed wine version: 2. Installed wine subpackages: 3. Selinux mode: 4. Window Manager: Steps to trigger the problem: