Wine (Wine Is Not An Emulator) is an open-source compatibility layer software app that enables the Linux and Unix users to run Windows software on their systems, via the Winelib software library.
At first, Wine was an acronym for WINdoes Emulator, but later, the name developers have shifted to the recursive backronym, “Wine is not an emulator”, to highlight that no emulation occurs when running Windows software.
The latest version available is Wine 1.7.44, which brings the following changes:
- More support for the COM interfaces of the RichEdit control.
- Initial version of a SmartTee filter.
- Some more support for the ARM64 platform.
- Support for the null device kernel object.
- Various bug fixes.
Also, enhanced support for the following games has been implemented: Wizardry 8, Desperados, Blood 2: The Chosen, Adobe Acrobat Pro 7, Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, Total Commander 8, Neverwinter Nights, Death to Spies: Moment of Truth, Evernote 5.4, Skyrim, Jade Empire Special Edition, Strong Bad’s Cool Game, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2, GOG Galaxy client, League of Legends and Sigil Portable.
Installation instructions:
The latest versions of Wine are not available via the default repositories of the supported OpenSUSE systems, but this does not mean that keeping Wine up to date on OpenSUSE is difficult.
All you need to do in order to get the latest version of Wine running on your OpenSUSE system is to add the repository to your system, refresh the repository index and install the wine package.
How to install Wine on OpenSUSE 13.2 (instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems):
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_13.2/ wine
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install wine1.7
How to install Wine on OpenSUSE 13.1 (instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems):
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_13.1/ wine
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install wine1.7
How to install Wine on OpenSUSE 12.3 (instructions for both 32 bit and 64 bit systems):
$ sudo zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_12.3/ wine
$ sudo zypper refresh
$ sudo zypper install wine1.7
Optional, to remove Wine from either OpenSUSE 13.2, OpenSUSE 13.1 or OpenSUSE 12.3, do:
$ sudo zypper remove wine1.7