Windows emulator

WINE is a windows emulator.

PlayOnLinux is a set a pre-configure settings and packages to use some windows application.

Play On Linux

wget -q "http://deb.playonlinux.com/public.gpg" -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget http://deb.playonlinux.com/playonlinux_trusty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/playonlinux.list
apt-get update
apt-get install playonlinux

Windows emulator

Installation

Ubuntu 16+

## As ROOT:
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install wine1.8
apt-get install winetricks 
apt-get install wine-mono
apt-get install q4wine


## As USER: 
wine cmd.exe /c echo '%ProgramFiles%'

Ubuntu 12-15

Installation

## As ROOT:
add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
apt-get update
apt-get install wine1.7-i386 wine1.7
apt-get install winetricks
apt-get install wine-mono4.5.0 wine-mono4.5.2 wine-mono4.5.4 
apt-get install q4wine

Set wine in 32 bits mode

By default the 64 bits version of wine is buggy... :(

You should use the 32 bits version instead.

• Remove ~/.wine if it was already created in the 64-bit mode.

rm -Rf ~ /.wine

• Set the WINEARCH environment variable to win32

vim ~/.bashrc             |or|    vim /etc/environment

[...after line 10...]             WINEARCH=win32
export WINEARCH=win32

You probably need to reboot at that point...

Configuration

!! The configuration must be done as an user, not as root !!

To get the list of windows libraries you can install:

winetricks list-download

Then you can install each library use winetricks <myLib> ; examples:

# Visual C++ runtimes
winetricks vcrun2003 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010
# Windows fonts
winetricks allfonts 
# DirectX and Direct 3D
winetricks d3dx9 d3dx10
# Visual studio libraries
winetricks mfc42
# .NET frameworks
winetricks dotnet45

Now you need to:

• Download .Net framework v3.0 from: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/net-framework-3-0
• Put the netframework3.ext file inside: /home/guillaume/.cache/winetricks/dotnet30
• Re-run the install

winetricks dotnet45

Sources

• WineHQ ubuntu: https://www.winehq.org/download/ubuntu
• PlayOnLinux ubuntu: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/download.html