Now, you can locate the virtual C: drive at. The general rule is to install each new application into a fresh wineprefix. We can create and maintain multiple wineprefix manually. But that task would seem rather tedious for the beginners. So, we will skip that part for now.
Installing a supported application in Wine is generally as easy as double-clicking on the installation file. However, we are now going to see a step-by-step guide for installing 7-zip on Wine. First of all, check for 7-zip rating on Wine Application Database. It has Platinum rating, so we are good to go. Open Wine configuration winecfg and set the Windows Version to Windows 7. See that destination folder path? If you want to access your files on Linux, they are generally located in Z: Drive.
You can use the 7-zip just as you would use it on Windows — for extracting and creating archives and such. You might have noticed that, at Wine Application Database, with every version of application review a specific Wine version is mentioned. It is because of the rapid development rate of Wine. Though an application runs with the current version of Wine, it might not run with a future version, because of the changes made.
So that, an application has no chance of interfering with another. And doing all these manually, usually from the terminal, is time-consuming, tiresome and at times, confusing. PlayOnLinux is here to rescue. It provides a nice interface for doing all these things easily.
For installing PlayOnLinux on Ubuntu, simply run this command:. You can easily perform every task related to Wine with PlayOnLinux from a beautiful and intuitive graphical interface:. But still, you will need to check Wine Application Database for reviews, installation procedures and such. When it comes to running Windows applications on Linux system, Wine provides many advantages over using emulators or virtual machines. Wine can be thought of as a Windows emulator in much the same way that Windows Vista can be thought of as a Windows XP emulator: both allow you to run the same applications by translating system calls in much the same way.
There are quite a number of projects for running Windows applications on other platforms, based on Wine:. This is another important part of using Wine. Winetricks is a helper script to download and install various redistributable runtime libraries needed to run some applications in Wine. These may include replacements for components of Wine using closed source libraries.
Winetricks comes with Wine installation on Ubuntu. If you Install an app from winetricks, it will be installed in a separate wineprefix. It will then begin to download the VLC installation files. And then guide you through the rest of the process. You can select a wineprefix from winetricks and install various libraries and components required by the application you want to run and also perform other operations. I feel the same way too.
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