Help Installing Wine

Help and Support Raspberry Pi
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Hi everyone

Does anyone have any advice how to get wine working on raspberry pi. I would like to test few small windows programs. One user suggested i try installing qemu with wine. I have the x11 desktop installed from this thread. Thanks joakim for making that.

https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/testing-x11-simple-desktop-chromium-web-browser-in-a-simple-installer/16846/1

unfortunately i know very little linux, could you point me in direction for trying the qemu with wine.

The program i want to try has wine gold rating, comments saying it works flawlessly so worth a try.
https://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=2899

This tutorial has it working using raspbian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5-vVgkj8UU

thanks for any advice

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OSMC is based on Debian. Why not use any existing tutorial for Rpi?

Installing Wine is quite outside of OSMC’s scope.

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Hi joakim

Do you know if windows programs will run using wine on this. I think there’s a arm version of wine. I’m looking to try a windows poker game.

I’ll look up some tutorials

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Wine will run, but dont expect it to run good. And remember you dont have much ram to run windows apps, but good luck.

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Tried installing wine but no luck. Sudo apt-get install wine doesn’t work. Do you know anywhere I can install it manually thanks.

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I believe you need jessie-backports repo for this. I don’t things will work as expected on ARM systems…

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Thanks Sam. Do you know the repo URL for this. Do I place it in sources.list.

I have a backup image of my system so if things don’t work out I can revert.

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Search for ‘jessie backports sources.list’

I don’t recommend doing this however, and we can’t provide any support for your OSMC system if you start using this repository.

Sam

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Wine will not work out of the box with programs compiled for x86 architecture.

In this case you would need something like exagear which is basically an optimized qemu running windows applications via wine in userspace.

Or directly use qemu with wine.
But results might disappoint you.

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thanks mcobit

unfortunately i know very little linux, could you point me in direction for trying the qemu with wine.

The program i want to try has wine gold rating, comments saying it works flawlessly so worth a try.
https://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=2899

This tutorial has it working using raspbian. Will this work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5-vVgkj8UU

thanks

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This should probably be in its own thread, as it isn’t related to OP’s post.

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Sorry Sam i will start new thread thanks

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Merged from original replies to earlier thread.

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Yes, could work like in the link.
Give it a try. But as said by sam: No guarantee and no support for your system after messing around with this stuff.
Would be too much hassle for me, but why not?