This document, called the Wine User Guide, is both an easy
installation guide and an extensive reference guide. This guide
is for both the new Wine user and the experienced Wine user,
offering full step-by-step installation and configuration
instructions, as well as featuring extensive reference material
by documenting all configuration features and support areas.
If, after examining this guide, the FAQ, and other relevant
documentation there is still something you cannot figure out,
we would love to hear from you. The mailing lists
section contains several mailing lists and an IRC channel, all
of which are great places to seek help and offer suggestions.
If you are particularly savvy, and believe that something can be
explained better, you can file a bug report or post a
patch on Wine's documentation itself.
In order to be able to use Wine, you must first have a working
installation. This guide will help you to move your system
from an empty, Wineless void to one boasting a fresh, up to
date Wine install. The first step, Getting Wine, illustrates the
various methods of getting Wine's files onto your computer.
The second step, Configuring
Wine, shows how to customize a Wine installation depending
on your individual needs. The final step, Running Wine, covers the specific
steps you can take to get a particular application to run
better under Wine, and provides useful links in case you need
further help.
The process of installing and running wine can be summarised as
follows:
Get a distribution as indicated in Getting Wine and see
the Wine
Downloads page. For the casual or new user the simplest
is to get an rpm distribution.
Configure wine using the winecfg command. For most people wine should now be usable.
To test your installation run wine's Windows 3.1 like file
manager using the wine winefile command.
