How to Install Latest Wine 1.7.X From Source on Red-Hat 7 64-bit Linux Easy Guide

September 21, 2014 | By the+gnu+linux+evangelist.

RHEL 7 64-bit Installing Wine 1.7

You are Welcome! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Install the Latest Wine on Stable 1.7.X from Source on Red-Hat Enterprise Linux 7 x8664.

Wine (originally an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is a Compatibility Layer capable of Running Windows Apps on several POSIX-compliant OSes systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD.

Instead, of Simulating internal Windows Logic like a Virtual Machine or Emulator, Wine translates Windows API calls into POSIX calls On-the-Fly, eliminating the Performance and Memory Penalties of other Methods and allowing you to Cleanly Integrate Windows Apps into your Desktop.

How to Add Latest Wine Ubuntu Repository
  1. Download Latest Wine 1.7.X Source

    Wine 1.7.X tar.bz2

    Perhaps Best to Choose the Most Downloaded Wine 1.7.X Release…

  2. Double-Click on Archive Extract into /tmp

    Install the Latest Wine 1.7.x on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 64-bit for Running Windows Programs - Archive Extraction

    Or from Command Line:

    tar xvf $HOME/Downloads/wine*.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/
  3. Open Terminal Window
    Cmd+”terminal”
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)

    Install the Latest Wine 1.7.x on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 64-bit for Running Windows Programs - Open Terminal
  4. Installing Wine 1.7 Packages Dependencies

  5. sudo su -c "yum install gcc flex-devel 
    flex-devel.i686 flex bison xorg*.i686 
    freetype-devel.i686 
    install alsa-lib-devel.i686 
    libsndfile-devel.i686 
    readline-devel.i686 
    glib2.i686 glibc-devel.i686 libgcc.i686 libstdc++-devel.i686 
    pulseaudio-libs-devel.i686 audiofile-devel.i686 
    cmake 
    freeglut-devel.i686 
    libieee1284-devel.i686 
    openldap-devel.i686 
    unixODBC-devel.i686 
    sane-backends-devel.i686 
    fontforge 
    libgphoto2-devel.i686 
    isdn4k-utils-devel.i686 
    mesa-libGL-devel.i686 mesa-libGLU-devel.i686 
    libXxf86dga-devel.i686 libXxf86vm-devel.i686 
    giflib-devel.i686 \ 
    cups-devel.i686 
    gsm-devel.i686 
    libv4l-devel.i686 
    fontpackages-devel 
    ImageMagick-devel.i686 \ 
    libX11-devel.i686 
    docbook-utils-pdf 
    libtextcat tex-cm-lgc 
    libXcursor-devel.i686 libXcursor 
    libXi-devel.i686 libXi.i686 
    xcb-util-image.i686 
    libXrandr-devel.i686 
    libXinerama-devel 
    libXcomposite.i686 libXcomposite-devel.i686 
    mesa-libOSMesa.i686 mesa-libOSMesa-devel.i686 
    libpcap-devel.i686 
    dbus-devel.i686 dbus-libs.i686 dbus-glib-devel.i686 dbus-glib.i686 
    ncurses-devel.i686 
    libgphoto2.i686 libgphoto2-devel.i686 
    lcms2-devel.i686 
    libzip-devel.i686 libzip.i686 
    gstreamer-devel.i686 gstreamer.i686 
    fontconfig-devel.i686 
    libtiff-devel.i686 
    prelink 
    libXrender-devel.i686 
    libxml2-devel.i686 
    libxslt-devel.i686 libxslt.i686 
    libjpeg-turbo-devel.i686 
    libpng-devel.i686 
    samba-winbind-clients.x8664 
    openssl098e.i686 
    gnutls-devel.i686"
  6. Installing Wine from Source

  7. ./configure
    make

    You will Need of a Lot of Patience because Wine Build can take about 6 hours!

    su -c "make install"

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