what is wine? new beginner

[salim.madni]

dear gurus

good day to you

we are new to ubuntu and eveyday we found something that is unbeliveavle

can you let us know what is "wine" in ubuntu, in 9.04 is it installed automatically, if not how we can install.

then what are the pros and crons are there.

can we install any windows/microsoft application using wine to ubuntu 9.04

as we found some people installating ms office 2007 using wine on their linux machine

regards
salim

[Falcon1002]

Hello!
Wine is a program that alows you to run Windows programs on Linux.

I don't know if wine is installed on 9.04, but you can install it with synaptic by searching for wine then checking the install option.

I don't know the pros and cons but I do know that it does not run every windows program.

To see if a program works you can look in the app data base on wineHq or you can try running the program and seeing if it works.

Hope this helps.

Falcon1002

[Clydtsdk-Rivendare]

WINE Is Not an Emulator.

Haha. (That's the project's original name)

It does allow you to run windows programs on Linux OS's and I think I read it works with Mac as well.

Very important for anyone running a computer with Linux.

[GreenBowlPacker_3]

dear gurus

good day to you

we are new to ubuntu and eveyday we found something that is unbeliveavle

can you let us know what is "wine" in ubuntu, in 9.04 is it installed automatically, if not how we can install.

then what are the pros and crons are there.

can we install any windows/microsoft application using wine to ubuntu 9.04

as we found some people installating ms office 2007 using wine on their linux machine

regards
salim


Can anyone help with the install? Does it work with 9.04? I've tried several things over the last few days and I can't get anything to work.

[cogadh]

What is Wine: http://www.winehq.org/about/
How to you get Wine for Jaunty: http://www.winehq.org/download/deb
What will run in Wine: http://appdb.winehq.org/

[GreenBowlPacker_3]

I've gone to winehq.org several times and read the how to's, but nothing seems to work.

[Falcon1002]

Have you tried opening a terminal and typing: sudo apt-get install wine ? This is how I install it. Also not every Windows program works. Hope this helps.

[cogadh]

I've gone to winehq.org several times and read the how to's, but nothing seems to work.
Rather than hijack this topic, you might want to start your own topic and make sure you give specific information on your problems, like what application(s) you are trying to run, what version of Wine you are using, what error messages (if any) you have gotten from the application or Wine, your system specs, etc.