Wine Quickstart Guide

This Quickstart Guide will help you to get Wine running. Make sure you have Wine installed. If you don't check this page on installing Wine: http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/getting-wine

Installing an application

In this guide I will show you how to install MS Office 97.
In order to install an application you must know the name of the file to run and the location of the file.
In this example I must run setup.exe which is loacted in /media/cdrom.
To install Office I must run the following command:

$ wine /media/cdrom/setup.exe

The application will now be installed.

Running an application

The application will be installed in a directory called .wine in your HOME directory. If your file manager doesn't show this directory make sure that it shows hidden files/directories (.wine is a hidden directory).

Office is installed in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office
If I want to run Word I must type the following lines:

$ cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office
$ wine winword.exe

It might be a good idea to create a file that launches Word. It could look like this:

#/bin/sh
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Microsoft\ Office/Office
wine winword.exe

Save this as word.sh in ~/bin and make it executable by typing chmod +x word.sh
You can now start Word by typing word.sh

More info

If you want more detailed info you should check out the Wine User Guide