Wine
Wine is a compatibility layer to run windows programs on linux machines.
Setup
- Enable multilib support in pacman
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vim /etc/pacman.conf- Uncomment the following linestxt [multilib] Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist -
pacman -S wine winetricks- Install wine and configuration helper
Configuration
- Set the global variable
WINEPREFIXto your liking, standard is$HOME/.wine winetricks- run the installation of basic windows dependencies to the wine directory- Move the program you want to run to
$WINEPREFIX/drive_c/ winetricks sandbox- (Optional) if you don't want wine to set up directories
or files into your home directorywine $WINEPREFIX/drive_c/<insert program>- Run the program with wine