Information about the package, wine, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The wine package is designed for, A compatibility layer for windows applications.
Package Name:
wine
Summary:
A compatibility layer for windows applications
Description:
Wine as a compatibility layer for UNIX to run Windows applications. This package includes a program loader, which allows unmodified Windows 3.x/9x/NT binaries to run on x86 and x86_64 Unixes. Wine can use native system .dll files if they are available. In Fedora wine is a meta-package which will install everything needed for wine to work smoothly. Smaller setups can be achieved by installing some of the wine-* sub packages.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.8.6
Release:
1.el6
Size:
50 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the wine package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install wine
This command will install wine on the server.
yum remove wine
This command will un-install wine on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wine, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove wine
This command will un-install wine on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wine when using the -y flag.
yum update wine
This command will update wine to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove wine, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update wine
This command will update wine to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove wine when using the -y flag.
yum info wine
This command will show you core information about the wine package.
yum deplist wine
This command will show you the dependencies for wine. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update wine
This command will check if there is an update waiting on wine. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.