Install Windows Software In Ubuntu With Wine Doors

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Wine Doors is an application that is designed to install windows software on Linux based systems. It is basically a package management tool for windows software on Linux systems and is originally developed for the Gnome desktop environment but it works flawlessly on KDE as well. Once installed, it will provide you a list of popular windows applications so installing a variety of windows application is made possible in just a couple of clicks. It works in conjunction with the application wine, so before installing Wine Doors, make sure that Wine is already installed.

You can find instructions for installing Wine here, now to install Wine Doors, open the terminal and run the following two commands in sequence.

wget http://www.wine-doors.org/releases/wine-doors_0.1-1_all.deb


sudo dpkg -i wine-doors_0.1-1_all.deb

Once installed, you may launch it from Applications > System Tools > Wine Doors.

Wine Doors

When launched for the first time, it will take some time to complete its initial configuration, after that it will load just fine. Wine Doors provides  easy  installation of many popular windows applications. Enjoy!

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  • Spears

    Hi
    I want to installe wine on my PC but the pages i am visiting they don’t don’t give me what i want so please help me to installe wine using linux ubuntu.
    i will be very grate full if my application is put into consideration
    Yours Spears woodruck

  • Erik

    Click system then click administration the click synaptic package manager
    click in the Quick Search box if the Quick Search box is not available clicke the
    icon search and enter wine in lower case letters. Then put your mouse on the
    check box for wine then click mark. Then click the apply . Wine should appear in the Applications menu at the bottom of the menu.

  • Jayesh Gore

    I want to install ANSIS software which supports windows xp through DVD. tell me how can install.

  • Suganux

    this is one of my favourite software. i’am already installed in my ubuntu 10.04 ;) it’s works perfectly.

  • ababhilash

    Caution – Try installing these games at your own risk :-) . World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI, GuildWars All Versions, StarCraft II Retail, Team Fortress 2 , Left 4 Dead Full , Warcraft III , Half-Life 2: Retail, Day of Defeat Source, Lord of the Rings Online Volume III , Counter Strike. StarCrafts II :wine ubuntu 11.04

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