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Wine User Guide

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Overview / About

1.1.1. Purpose of this document and intended audience
1.1.2. Further questions and comments
1.1.3. Content overview / Steps to take
1.1.4. Quick start

1.2. What is Wine?

1.2.1. Windows and Linux
1.2.2. What is Wine, and how can it help me?
1.2.3. Wine features

1.3. Versions of Wine

1.3.1. Wine from Wine HQ
1.3.2. Other Versions of Wine

1.4. Alternatives to Wine you might want to consider

1.4.1. Native Applications
1.4.2. Another Operating System
1.4.3. Virtual Machines

2. Getting Wine

2.1. Wine Installation Methods

2.1.1. Installation from a package
2.1.2. Installation from a source archive
2.1.3. Installation from a Git tree

2.2. Installing Wine from a package

2.2.1. Installing a fresh package
2.2.2. Different Distributions

2.3. Installing Wine from source

2.3.1. Getting the Build Dependencies
2.3.2. Compiling Wine
2.3.3. Uninstalling Wine from Source

3. Configuring Wine

3.1. Using Winecfg

3.1.1. Application Settings
3.1.2. Libraries Settings
3.1.3. Graphics Settings
3.1.4. Drive Settings
3.1.5. Audio Settings
3.1.6. Desktop Integration

3.2. Using the Registry and Regedit

3.2.1. Registry Structure
3.2.2. Registry Files
3.2.3. Using Regedit
3.2.4. System Administration Tips
3.2.5. Complete List of Registry Keys

3.3. Other Things to Configure

3.3.1. Serial and Parallel Ports
3.3.2. Network Shares
3.3.3. Fonts
3.3.4. Printers
3.3.5. Scanners
3.3.6. ODBC Databases

4. Running Wine

4.1. Basic usage: applications and control panel applets

4.2. How to run Wine

4.3. Explorer-like graphical Wine environments

4.4. Wine Command Line Options

4.4.1. --help
4.4.2. --version

4.5. Environment variables

4.5.1. WINEDEBUG=[channels]
4.5.2. WINEDLLOVERRIDES=[DLL Overrides]
4.5.3. OSS Audio Driver Settings

4.6. wineserver Command Line Options

4.6.1. -d<n>
4.6.2. -h
4.6.3. -k[n]
4.6.4. -p[n]
4.6.5. -w

4.7. Setting Windows/DOS environment variables

4.8. Text mode programs (CUI: Console User Interface)

4.8.1. Configuration of CUI executables

5. Troubleshooting / Reporting bugs

5.1. What to do if some program still doesn't work?

5.1.1. Verify your wine configuration
5.1.2. Use different windows version settings
5.1.3. Use different startup paths
5.1.4. Fiddle with DLL configuration
5.1.5. Check your system environment !
5.1.6. Use different GUI (Window Manager) modes
5.1.7. Check your app !
5.1.8. Check your Wine environment !
5.1.9. Reconfigure Wine
5.1.10. Check out further information
5.1.11. Debug it!

5.2. How To Report A Bug

5.2.1. All Bug Reports
5.2.2. Crashes

List of Tables
1-1. Various Wine offerings
4-1. Debug Channels
4-2. Basic differences in consoles
4-3. Wineconsole configuration options

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