= Wine - Windows Emulator =

Wine is used for running Windows based programs on Linux. www.winehq.com Wine is not very stable, and as a result, I strongly suggest you look for a similar program with similar functionality. Do a “apt-cache search program” to search for packages/programs.

apt-get install wine

apt-get install winesetuptk //This is a gui for setting up wine for a user. It sets up a fake_windows main folder etc.

apt-get install wine-utils //This provides tools such as “regedit” which can simply be run as “regedit” from the cmdline to show and allow editing of the emulated Windows registry.

wine programinstall.exe

wine notepad.exe

Note wine is not very stable for some programs. There are a list of programs and how well they run on the Wine website at: http://appdb.winehq.org/appbrowse.php