Install wine on linux

How to install wine on linux?

Which linux did you get. I pay no attention any more to mandriva and opensuse -- can't get them to work on my machines -- but Slackware, Debian, and Fedora all install it by default and Ubuntu is a Debian-derivative for this discussion. Gentoo has no default.

I won't go into slackware's pkgtools. Look on your install disks in any case. For Debian and its derivatives type a "sudo apt-get install wine" in a terminal -- and you may find it's already installed. For Fedora open a terminal, type su, then the root password when you are prompted for it, then type "yum install wine". If you're using gentoo then I believe it's emerge wine but if you're using gentoo why don't you know already?


Anyhow, once you have it look for it on your menu or just type it and the name of the windows vir^H^H^Hprogram you are trying to run. Y'know, wine quake.exe.