[Wine] [PLEASE HELP] Trying to install wine in Amazon AWS EC2

perryh at pluto.rain.com perryh at pluto.rain.com
Sat Dec 24 08:41:16 CST 2011


"gyu5point0" <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:

> I looked everywhere for information on how to install wine in the
> Amazon AWS cloud.
>
> Can somebody please point me to some working binaries and which
> AMI to use?  And possibly some installation instructions?
>
> I'm just trying to run some simple Windows console applications
> (from MS-DOS)... nothing fancy.  But wine just doesn't want to
> install or run in AWS.  Surely many people have installed wine
> in the Amazon cloud a thousand times, right?

Most MS-DOS programs will run better in dosbox than in wine, so
if dosbox will run in AWS it may save you the trouble of getting
wine to run there.  I personally have no idea whether either one
will work.



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