Questions tagged [wine]
Wine is a software compatibility layer that allows Windows programs to be run on Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X.
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How to kill wine processes when they crash or are going to crash?
Sometimes it happens that a Wine application crashes (slowing down the system and making it almost unusable).
In most cases I'm able to kill the program with xkill, but sometime I've to restart as ...
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Broken Packages Fix Problem (For Wine)
I was trying to install Heroes of Might and Magic 3 with Play on Linux. When I start the program it gives me an error message
PlayOnLinux cannot find wine (from Wine). You should install it to use ...
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Risks/Disadvantages associated with Wine
Can wine as a whole or the windows applications installed via wine pose some kind of risk to an Ubuntu installation? This question arose in my mind when I read this answer to my earlier question ...
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How do I print to PDF from wine?
I am running MS Office under wine and would like to print PDF documents.
Installing the official extension via wine does nothing.
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How do I install MS Office 2016 on PlayOnLinux
How can I get playonlinux to install Microsoft Office 2016. The options from the install menu only go up to 2013.
Is there a more recent version of PlayOnLinux (or indeed Wine) I can download to ...
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The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F [duplicate]
When I type sudo apt update I get this response:
Get:1 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu bionic InRelease [6,242 B]
Ign:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease ...
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E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package winehq-stable
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p11-kit: Typical problem with Wine
I've installed Wine 1.7 with Winetricks on Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy Salamander. I've tried to launch any .exe files, but still is a problem:
p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/...
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How to change the default audio in Wine to Alsa only
I am trying to change the default Audio sound system to ALSA so it fixes some sound issues. How can this be done?
Am using 1.3.x branch from PPA which is much better than the 1.1.x and 1.2.x in every ...
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Change Icon of Wine Application in Unity Launcher
I frequently run a windows program with wine. When I open this program it shows up in the unity launcher as wine instead of the actual opened program.
I have made a desktop launcher with the right ...
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Running .Net 4.0 application with Wine
I'm attempting to run a simple program in Wine, under Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, however it complains that
fixme:mscoree:parse_supported_runtime sku=L".NETFramework,Version=v4.0" not implemented
fixme:...
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How to check if dpkg-architecture --list has all the architectures?
To install skype and dependencies on 16.04. 64bit I need to
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
Via (man page):
dpkg-architecture --list
I then can check the list of architectures. What line must ...
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How to check if my Wine prefix is 32 bit or 64 bit?
I saw tons of threads explaining how to create a 32 bit prefix, but I want to check if the prefix I'm using is 32 bit or 64 bit. The reason I'm asking is that I'm using PlayOnLinux, and I've created a ...
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How do I fix Netflix requiring Silverlight update?
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64-bit, which I installed using the original release (not the newer 12.04.2 release), and have been successfully using netflix-desktop ever since the ppa:ehoover/compholio ...
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Wine Install - Do I need Mono, Gecko, etc
I just did a wine Install on Ubuntu 16.04 and got the dialogue "We can install Mono and Gecko but recommend you do it the proper way". I hit the cancel button figuring I'll install them later. Do I ...
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Installing Internet Explorer [duplicate]
I just installed Ubuntu 14.04 and need to install Internet Explorer. My banks require that I use it. Any help would be appreciated. I've only found very old answers online.
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Can't install wine from winehq.org on Ubuntu (actually Lubuntu) 18.04 LTS
I have followed all the instructions on the winehq page. In particular, I have run the following commands:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key
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How do I install libfaudio0?
I'm trying to install the libfaudio0 in Ubuntu 18.04. LTS and WineHQ tells me I need too add, and I don't know what to do, I don't know how to install these packages How do I install libfaudio from ...
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How to create Wine shortcut?
While attempting to create a desktop shortcut for an app that uses wine I came up with this error:
Failed to execute child process "/home/fiver/.wine/drive_c/Program" (No such file or directory)
I ...
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How to recover focus after losing it while using Wine
Sometimes when using Wine, specially with Games, doing ALT+TAB will make the system loose either keyboard or mouse focus over the current active window.
With this I mean that for example, if I do ALT+...
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How to install HeidiSQL on Ubuntu
I have been using HeidiSQL (an open source GUI for MySQL / MSSQL) on Windows for a while now. However, as I'm moving to Ubuntu for development, I'd like to continue using HeidiSQL.
The website states ...
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How Do I Get Rid of "Broken NVIDIA RandR detected, falling back to RandR 1.0"?
My short question is:
How do I get rid of the RandR error below, while still using a proprietaty nVidia driver package (e.g. 304) ?
The gore follows.
A fresh install of wine 1.5 (latest, from ...
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Compiling wine: x development files not found
I downloaded the wine-1.4-rc5.tar.bz2. I ran the tools/wineinstall in terminal. After some time I get this error.
checking for X... no configure: error: X development files not found.
Wine will be ...
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Wine cannot find the FreeType font library
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit
All packages currently up to date as far as I can without going to 16.10 (I can't do a distro update as I am a first responder and my radio gear will not work on 16.10 as of ...
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The connection of Wine and PlayOnLinux
I'm about to install wine on my new ubuntu 10.10 installation, however I can't determaine if I should install Wine or PlayOnLinux. I've already read over the following page http://wiki.winehq.org/...
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How do I install wine?
Can someone please explain how I can install wine in the following ways?
By using the package manager?
By downloading and installing a pre-built package?
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How to install PhpStorm in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS?
I have a JetBrains PhpStorm 7.1 and I want to install it in Ubuntu 14.04 so I installed wine for windows compatibility and I run PhpStorm-7.1.exe then it was successfully installed (I guess). But when ...
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What can be done to make Wine look more integrated into Unity?
Wine looks like an alien that says "Hello, I am definitely not part of your desktop environment". Many wine applications have no icons and wine itself runs on the ugly-looking windows 95 theme.
Is ...
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Unknown error: '<class 'KeyError'>' ("The cache has no package named wine-staging-i386")
There is an error sign on my Ubuntu panel which states the error given in the title. I used sudo apt-get update but it gave me no errors. However the error sign persists.
How do I fix this?
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How do I set Notepad++ as an editor on Ubuntu?
I use notepad++ from Wine.
I want to set Notepad++ as one of the default editors. I tried to set it by right-clicking on a file, then Open With. But I did not see Notepad++ in the resulting list (...
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How can I run Windows applications in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I install windows Software in Ubuntu?
How do I run Windows' applications in Ubuntu ?
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Where does Wine store files?
I have a dotnet 4.5.2 application, which is just a console application that saves some datafeed into a .txt file. The program depends on some .dll files (private data-connectors, I don't have control ...
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How to install Kindle on Ubuntu 18.04?
The title says it all.
Ubuntu 18.04.*
wine 3.04
KindleForPC-installer-1.25.52064.exe (latest)
I'm not knowledgeable about error messages. In a console, when I run ...
$ wine KindleForPC-installer-...
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Can I play Windows games using WINE and/or through Steam?
When I download Wine to play Windows games, will I also be able to play those Windows games through Steam?
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Is there any way to get AutoHotKey or IronAHK working?
I am very interested in getting AutoHotKey, the windows program for automation of keystrokes, working under Ubuntu. So far I have installed Wine, but am unable to use any of my previous windows ...
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Cannot install wine32 in Ubuntu 16.10
I have upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04. Wine was installed in my system but after upgrade it was returning the following error.
it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please ...
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What is the difference between wine versions: stable, staging, devel, development?
I tried to install wine using these commands:
sudo apt-get install -y wine
And:
sudo apt-get install wine
But terminal says that:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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How to simulate keyboard input?
This is the biggest thing keeping me from enjoying Ubuntu/Linux.
Ideally I'd like to just be able to run my AutoHotKey script on Ubuntu, but I didn't have much luck getting that working with Wine.
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How to run Windows Steam games from Linux Steam (with WINE)?
I am currently using 2 versions of steam, the Linux one for games compatible with Linux, and the windows version in wine for games which are not compatible. I was wondering if it is possible to get ...
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How to add shortcut onto Wine desktop?
Wine has a "desktop mode" where it renders a virtual desktop in a window and renders all its windows within that desktop. You can access it through:
wine explorer /desktop=arbname,1920x1200 &...
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Mount an ISO image in Wine?
I need to install some program in wine, which require to access a mounted ISO image. Whenever I mount an ISO image in Nautilus, in which drive it mounted in Wine?
For some programs which can find the ...
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How do I tell winetricks to work with a different prefix?
I'm trying to enable alsa on different prefix than default through winetricks. More specifically, the prefix that has Rosetta Stone on it, as it cannot see my microphone.
When I open winetricks, it ...
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What is a WINEPREFIX?
I have searched a bit but cannot find a clear-cut, precise answer. I believe I'm not the only one looking for a clear definition.
What is a Wineprefix?
What is its function?
What is a "clean&...
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What is the difference between `wine` and `wine64`?
I would like to understand what is the difference between wine and wine64.
Tried googling but cannot find a normal explanation.
The reason I am asking is because I have 2 exe files, 32-bit and 64-bit ...
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"~/.wine is not owned by you", am I safe?
So I was running about trying to install something in wine when I encountered the suggestion to use sudo to get administrator privileges. That's when I got the above message
~/.wine is not owned by ...
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How do I use two different versions of wine on the same installation?
I need to use two different Windows applications, one works well with Wine 1.4 but not on Wine 1.5 and the other application works well with the later version but not with the former.
Is there a way ...
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wine: Install Mono for Windows to run .NET 2.0 applications
I just downloaded the GTA SA.. and it works fine with the SA:MP 0.3z RC2, but I have a big problem. There is a server which uses a secondary client. I tried to run it with WINE and Mono, but it still ...
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Why is Wine not installable on my system?
I upgraded on a fresh install to Ubuntu 12.10, and I've tried installing wine many times, but I always get this:
This error could be caused by required additional software packages which are missing ...
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How do I install iTunes? [duplicate]
I have an iPhone and run Ubuntu on all of my personal computers. Since I did not want to keep a separate partition with Windows on it for the sole purpose of running iTunes, I attempted to install It ...
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Wine won't follow Symbolic links
I can't get Wine to follow some symbolic links I have in my home folder or in applications. Is there a way to enable this? This is on Wine-1.5.18.
Edit: Just in case it helps, I'm trying to use a ...