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Wine

About

Wine is an open source implementation of the windows api ontop of X and opengl. The official homepage is located at [1] . The packages I maintain are split up to allow for smaller installations. Normal users utilizing the Fedora repository should be able to use yum to install the packages.

yum install wine

This will install the wine meta package containing a standard set of dependencies. Expert users that want certain specific wine packages to be installed can choose from the list below:

name summary
wine-capi ISDN support for wine
wine-cms Color Management for wine
wine-core Wine core package
wine-devel Wine development environment
wine-esd ESD sound support for wine
wine-jack JACK sound support for wine
wine-ldap LDAP support for wine
wine-nas NAS sound support for wine
wine-tools Additional wine tools
wine-twain Twain support for wine

For debugging purposes wine-debuginfo is also available in the debug repositories. Additional documentation is provided via the wine-docs package.

Fedora

Active Fedora Versions: F-7, F-8, F-9, devel(F-10)

Current Version: F-7,F-8,F-9,devel: 0.9.58 F-7,F-8(update-testing): 1.0-rc1

Fedora packages can be found at [2] or installed via yum as stated above.

RHEL/Centos

Active EPEL Versions: EL-4, EL-5

Current Version: 0.9.57

RHEL/Centos packages can be found at [3] or installed via yum as stated above if the epel repository is enabled. To learn more about EPEL take a look at Self:EPEL.

Bugs and Problems

Attention Fedora 9 Users

Due to a kernel feature in Fedora 9 (and rawhide) wine may not run. If this is the case please read http://wiki.winehq.org/PreloaderPageZeroProblem to verify if these problems relate to this bug.

Current Fedora Wine Bugs: 4

#bug description
313581 arabic letters in wine-0.9.44-1.fc7
375101 Printing from apps run under wine crashes wine
313581 wine: Missing font files cause wine to render strange letters
417161 Font not found in wine

Reporting Bugs

Before reporting bugs against wine please make sure your system is up-to-date.

yum upgrade

Also check if a newer version is available in updates-testing

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing upgrade wine

Please make sure before reporting bugs that you have at least the wine meta package (+ dependencies) installed

Then check in the Wine Application Database [4] if your application is supported and the bug is a packaging bug and not a bug/missing feature in wine.

The next step is to check in the above list if your packaging bug has already been reported.

If you are using the proprietary graphic drivers from ati or nvidia please remove them from your system and try again as they are known to cause problems.


The next step is to see if the problem persists with a clean ~/.wine folder. To try this without losing your old configuration do something like

mv ~/.wine ~/.wine-save

Afterwards try to trigger the bug again. Your original wine folder can be restored with

rm -fr ~/.wine; mv ~/.wine-save ~/.wine

If your application still does not work but has been working in a previous version of wine it is probably a regression. Take a look a the [5] wine application database and consider filling a bug in the winehq bugzilla [6] .

If you really thing that your bug is packaging related fill a bug against the wine component at [7] .

1. Installed wine version:
2. Installed wine subpackages:
3. Selinux mode:
4. Window Manager:

Steps to trigger the problem: