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Wine is a free software application that aims to allow computer programs written for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-like operating systems.

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Adding wine to bash profile

I have installed wine 1.7.50 from source. There weren’t any .dmg or .app installers available on version 1.7.50 which supports DirectX11. So, I had to install it via terminal from source via the below ...
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Error installing Safari for Windows on Ubuntu 15 through Wine

I'm trying to install Safari 5 for Windows in Ubuntu 15 through Wine (version 1.6.2). First I downloaded with wget: wget http://appldnld.apple.com/Safari5/041-5487.20120509.INU8B/SafariSetup.exe ...
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Installing Visual C++ Redistributable 2012 64-bit in Wine on Ubuntu 64-bit dist

This is a known bug in Wine for 64-bit systems that the 2012 redist does not play well. I am running 14.04 64-bit. I need a pure 64-bit because of the program I am trying to install (Illustrator CC 64-...
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How to make apt-get working in Oracle Linux?

I have tried to install Wine on to my Oracle Linux by using apt-get install wine, but it didn't work. I have tried this as normal user but it was showing this error: bash: apt-get: command not ...
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Change color depth in KDE?

So I was running a game trough wine and it changed my resolution and color depth. Was easy to get the resolution back to normal but can't find any way to change the color depth back. How do I do it ...
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Running Palm Desktop in Wine

I'm using a Macbook Pro, and I'm trying to sync with a Palm Zire. After discovering that Palm Desktop for OS X is a PowerPC app, and won't run, I decided to install Palm Desktop for Windows inside of ...
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How to disable Gecko package popup for Wine?

When I run my app under Wine: wine my_app.exe I've got this annoying popup: which says: Wine could not find a Gecko package which is needed for applications embedding HTML to work correctly. I ...
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Native Windows Libraries Under Wine

As we know, Wine has the ability to run windows native Dlls instead of it's own library files. For example you can use the original d3dx9.dll instead of wine's own d3dx9.dll implementation. Does ...
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Password-protected PDF not opening on Linux

I have a PDF document (from the British Library via interlibrary loan) which is password protected via some sort of remote validation of the password. I tried to open it on Ubuntu 14.04, which failed....
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Why is my US English keyboard re-mapped to Swedish in MonoDevelop?

I am using Wine to run MonoDevelop and Unity in openSuSE and it works rather well. However, I have a snag where in MonoDevelop, my keyboard is mapped to use Swedish keyboard layout rather than my ...
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Variable as argument to Wine

The variable $INPUT_FILES in Case 1 has the same content (string) that is used in Case 2. Why in Case 1 I have problems with spaces in the name "2015 01 09.1.txt", but in Case 2 not? How can I fix ...
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Is there a way to use google voice on magic jack on linux?

I am running the latest Ubuntu. Here is what I want to achieve: I want to be able to dial a number on the phone on my magic jack, and connect the call via google voice. I have tried running GV jack ...
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fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation in wine

I am trying to launch setup to install an app with wine. Launching it without the terminal does nothing, however launching it in the terminal with the command wine foosetup.exe it gives the error ...
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How to stop MetaTrader 4 from updating it-self?

I came across the annoying LiveUpdate popup which constantly ask me to update my version. I couldn't find any option to disable this "feature" from the settings. Any ideas?
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Run program installed on desktop in wine

I am trying to get Warcraft II Battle Edition (http://en.war2.ru/) to work on Ubuntu (14.04) by running it through wine. I was able to successfully get through the installation menu of Warcraft in ...
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Visual Studio in Ubuntu Errors

How can I install the latest Visual Studio beta in Ubuntu through wine? It's so frustrating. I just want C# bash scripting. I get many errors. Has anyone had success?
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MS Office 2010 not working in fedora 22 in Wine

I am new in Linux, Using Fedora 22 beta. I have installed Wine. Then installed ms office standard 2010 package. Everything was okay except the MS PowerPoint.Then thought as we do in windows, I will re-...
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How can I run DirectX games on Linux?

I've tried using this tutorial on getting it working but when it tells me to enter a list of dll's from here but I only get a missing page. If I could either have that list or another completely ...
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How to run Cornelsen's "Tobi" software (for Windows) on linux, using Wine

There are a lot of resources on how to run Windows software with Wine, but this question is specifically about how to run a software called "Tobi Fibel" from the German Cornelsen Verlag on (Ubuntu) ...
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Is it possible to run Adobe After Effects (CS6 or later versions) under Wine?

I have been unsuccessful trying to install Adobe After Effects on Linux using Wine. If someone has done this successfully, could you share what steps are required beyond a "simple" installation in ...
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Can Windows Viruses/malwares infect mac osx if installed through Wine?

I am relatively new to OSX in general, I started using it two weeks only, the app Wineskin (a.k.a Wine in Linux environment) is used to run a Windows application inside osx by creating the correct ...
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Linux symlink not working

I have been trying to do symlink but It does not work. This is all it gives me after I do the command ls -s /mnt/01A3D80750CDAFF9/Steam ~/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/Steam/ dimitri@dimitri-desktop:~$ ls ...
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Make Wine run its applications as user profile, not Administrator

For a very specific case, I need to install PostgreSQL under Wine to run a Windows application that packs it's own installation of PostgreSQL even if PostgreSQL is already installed, for security ...
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"Protected multilib versions:" during installation of wine on Fedora 21

I got an error when I try to install wine for fedora 21 with sudo yum install wine The error i'm reciving is Error: Multilib version problems found. This often means that the root cause is ...
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How to get color printing to work for wine applications via cups-pdf on Linux?

As detailed in these instructions, I am using cups-pdf to print from PDF-XChange, which I have installed under Wine 1.6.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. It works great for printing monochrome pages, but I am unable ...
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Microsoft Office 2010 along with a language pack using Wine

I've succesfully installed Microsoft Office 2010 on my Ubuntu linux (14.04) using Wine with Playonlinux. No problem here. What I'm trying to achieve (again) is to install both the English and ...
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wine msi installation issue - err:msidb, fixme:storage

I am trying to do stuff with vpython. vpython.org suggests I do a wine installation and then try to install the vpython stuff as per the instruction mentioned here But the issue is with wine when ...
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Packaging Windows application with Wine in deb and rpm format

Can I package a Windows application with WINE in .deb and .rpm file? Just like TeamViewer and Picasa for Linux. I don't have the source code of the application available, so I cannot compile it ...
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Wine says "fixme:heap:HeapSetInformation" when trying to run command

Fedora 21 x64 (LXDE spin) wine-1.7.30 (Compholio) Under Linux Wine I'm trying to execute this command: $ wine "/home/user/.foobar2000/drive_c/Program Files/foobar2000/foobar2000.exe" /runcmd-playing=...
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How do I install Adobe Dreamweaver on Ubuntu 14.04 with Wine?

I am trying to install Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 using Wine on Ubuntu. Google searches have resulted in tutorials for old versions of Ubuntu, Wine, etc. I need a solid way to install and run Adobe ...
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Difficulty getting "Universal USB Installer" to work in WINE

I have a 16 GB USB flash drive inserted into a machine running Linux Mint. I want to use the Windows program Universal USB Installer via Wine (the end goal here is to create a XenServer bootable USB ...
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Is possible to access the clipboard Linux Mint through Photoshop?

I have Linux Mint 17 installed and am using Photoshop CS6 through Wine but the clipboard does not work, if I try to copy an image in the browser and then paste in Photoshop directly does not work, I ...
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Can't save any document by Ms-Office [wine]

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS) and installed Ms-Office by using Wine. Initially Ms-Word and Ms-Excel works fine. But recently not able to save any documents by Ms-Office. Whenever I try to save or ...
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7-zip extras for Linux

I want to pack a folder containing various resources and executables into a single self-extracting file and execute a command after that, "setup.exe" for example. I've successfully accomplished that ...
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I can't run Hitleap Viewer.exe on Linux Ubuntu OVH VPS

I'm trying to run this app on Linux VPS. I have tried many methods but I couldn't do it. First method: Install a Graphic VNC-desktop. Install Wine Log-in and execute the app. This method didn't ...
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How can I get wine to support outputting to pulseaudio (through ALSA compatibility layer) with 32 bit Windows programs on Slackware64?

So, I have a working multilib setup as per the slackbook instructions. I have wine successfully working with 32 bit Windows programs (namely Skyrim and Deus Ex: Human Revolution). And I have ...
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Using the NVIDIA OPTIMUS at Ubuntu 14.04/Mint 17 KDE With Wine

I have tried to use the NVIDIA OPTIMUS in Mint 17 KDE using Wine to run the game Counter Strike 1.6 (hl.exe). The card installs and works correctly (since I use Wine 1.7). But when I try to start ...
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Running supreme commander forged alliance in dual monitor mode

I have ubuntu 14.04 64bit with wine 1.7 I installed FA via steam on wine and FAF as well. both run decently although, FA does not detect my second monitor. is this something wine is incapable of ...
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How do I dump information from a Windows *.lnk shortcut on Linux?

To launch Windows lnk shortcut on Linux, one can use wine start qqq.lnk. But do I view the information (command line, current directory) about it? strings is not enough.
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Run shell script (.sh) from wine

I am new to the wine community. I need some help with a project I am trying to do. I have installed Wine over Ubuntu 14.04 and I have installed ffmpeg on my machine (ffmpeg as a linux program). I ...
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Block all outgoing traffic for a User running Wine apps

Good day, I'm using a lot of WINE apps under Linux which work just fine, but one thing I am specifically looking for right now is to block their access to the internet (outgoing), with exception of ...
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pass filename(with space in the path) as argumant to a wine app in a bash script

I want to luanch an wine App with passing a file as argument. I've two file, with the first I don't have any problem but when there is a space in the path wine can't handle the address properly. here ...
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MS Access 2007 in Wine: hyperlinks couldn't be opened

I need to set up a machine with Linux (Ubuntu or Mint) and install MS Access on it using wine (MS Office programs that I worked with before, Word and Excel, worked in wine just fine). But I'm facing ...
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Using Wine to open Windows .exe

I apologize for repeating my question, but it was suggested that I ask it on this StackExchange site instead of stackoverflow: Original post: I have created a simple .NET 4.5 Entity Framework ...
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Copy Stamp of 'Photoshop CS2' doesn't work under LMDE with Crossover 13

i managed to install PS CS2 with Crossover Linux under Linux Mint Debian Edition and now every tool works fine except for one the copy stamp and this is rather important for me because i edit a lot of ...
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Issue with WINE after NVIDIA Driver installation

I used to be able to successfully play Pocket Tanks and Commandos on my Fedora 20 64bit system using WINE. Few days ago I finally got time to install NVIDIA Driver. After that, WINE is now not working....
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Increasing image size inside of WINE

I have an application designed for Windows XP, that needs to be ported to a Mac running 10.9.2. I found WineBottler and have created a package for the app, which works perfectly with the exception of ...
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Is ReactOS or WINE the more stable replacement for Windows XP? [closed]

As Windows XP is now out of support and any freshly discovered vulnerabilities will not be addressed, it's time to retire Windows XP from my Internet-connected computers. There's a lot of Windows-...
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How do you run kakorokuRecorder on Wine? [closed]

I'm trying to run kakorokuRecorder on Wine but I get this when I run it. System.ArgumentException: A null reference or invalid value was found [GDI+ status: InvalidParameter] at System.Drawing....
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How to add dll-override to wine config from command-line?

I know that I can add dll-overrides from wineconfig GUI: WINEPREFIX="$somedir" winecfg I know that I can temporarily add dll-overrides from command-line by specifying WINEDLLOVERRIDES environment ...
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