On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com> wrote: > madunix wrote: >> Am running Centos5.2 64Bit, want to run windows application on it >> [x at linux10 ~]$ uname -a >> Linux 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 19:32:05 EDT 2008 x86_64 x86_64 >> x86_64 GNU/Linux >> [x at linux10 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release >> CentOS release 5.2 (Final) >> >> Which Wine version should i install? >> Should i go for rpm or tarball package? >> Which packages should be installed beside Wine? <snip> > Does the windoze application you want to run actually run on Wine?? > Check first, as there are many windoze apps that use undocumented short cuts > to achieve their aims but thus cause problems for wine. > If you are running CentOS it would first of all pay to get current - the > version you quote is not! > One of the big reasons for CentOS is that users want stability - thus use > RPMs, any time you roll your own with tarballs you risk breaking some > dependancy - and as always, you get to keep the pieces. > I think CentOS and rpmforge do not have wine, epel does, however I find that > the packages on this site are not always as robust as I like. YMMV. > Do read the CentOS wiki and the many excellent howtos before proceeding. A couple of additional comments. I'm running CentOS 5.2 (32 bit), fully updated, so your 64 bit system will probably differ: (a) I installed Google's Picasa, which installs it's own version of WINE. Runs perfectly. YMMV, depending on what SW you want to run on WINE. Regarding EPEL, I suggest you first have the Priorities plug in installed, which you should have installed already. When I installed the EPEL Repository, 2 or 3 weeks ago, I gave it a a very low priority. The number of Packages being protected, by the Priorities plug in, jumped from approximately 350 to approximately 1650, after I had EPEL installed. You can contemplate what might happen to your box, if you install the EPEL Repository, without giving it a very low priority.....