{"id":7639,"date":"2021-01-25T02:37:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T23:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/?p=7639"},"modified":"2024-03-19T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T17:40:10","slug":"install-wine-6-on-fedora-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/install-wine-6-on-fedora-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Install Wine 6 on Fedora 33"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.winehq.org\/about\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wine<\/a> (an acronym for &#8220;Wine Is Not an Emulator&#8221;) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, &amp; BSD. In this article we will learn how to install Wine 6 on Fedora 33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1003\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/install-wine-6-fedora.png\" alt=\"Install Wine 6 on Fedora 33\" class=\"wp-image-7790\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/install-wine-6-fedora.png?v=1611592739 1003w, https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/install-wine-6-fedora-768x283.png?v=1611592739 768w, https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/install-wine-6-fedora-150x55.png?v=1611592739 150w, https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/install-wine-6-fedora-300x110.png?v=1611592739 300w, https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/install-wine-6-fedora-696x256.png?v=1611592739 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1003px) 100vw, 1003px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Installing Wine 6 on Fedora 33<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Wine can be installed on Fedora using two methods;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#install-from-official-repository\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Install Wine from the official repository<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#install-from-winehq-repository\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Install Wine from WineHQ repository<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"install-from-official-repository\">Install Wine from the official repository<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Wine is provided by the default Fedora 33 repository. A quick check on the repo yields the following;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>[kifarunix@localhost ~]$ sudo dnf whatprovides wine\n[sudo] password for kifarunix: \nLast metadata expiration check: 0:11:21 ago on Sun 24 Jan 2021 22:07:57 GMT.\n<strong>wine-5.18-2.fc33.i686<\/strong> : A compatibility layer for windows applications\nRepo        : fedora\nMatched from:\nProvide    : wine = 5.18-2.fc33\n<strong>wine-5.18-2.fc33.x86_64<\/strong> : A compatibility layer for windows applications\nRepo        : fedora\nMatched from:\nProvide    : wine = 5.18-2.fc33\n<strong>wine-6.0-1.fc33.i686<\/strong> : A compatibility layer for windows applications\nRepo        : updates\nMatched from:\nProvide    : wine = 6.0-1.fc33\n<strong>wine-6.0-1.fc33.x86_64 <\/strong>: A compatibility layer for windows applications\nRepo        : updates\nMatched from:\nProvide    : wine = 6.0-1.fc33\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>Although older versions are available in the repository, dnf will select the latest the latest version provided, which is version 6.0-1 in our case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>sudo dnf -y install wine<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>Last metadata expiration check: 0:16:42 ago on Sun 24 Jan 2021 22:07:57 GMT.\nDependencies resolved.\n================================================================================\n Package                       Arch   <strong>Version<\/strong>                     Repo     Size\n================================================================================\nInstalling:\n wine                          x86_64 <strong>6.0-1.fc33<\/strong>                  updates  13 k\nInstalling dependencies:\n SDL2                          i686   2.0.12-4.fc33               fedora  526 k\n alsa-lib                      i686   1.2.3.2-5.fc33              fedora  506 k\n.\n.\n.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest Wine package will be installed together with its dependencies. You can still verify the installed version as follows;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>wine --version<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>wine-6.0 (Staging)<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-5058e0b0-51fd-4fff-84f3-198417cbf0b5\">As you can note, the <strong>Staging<\/strong> code name is a variant of Wine. We will describe more in the second way of installing Wine.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"install-from-winehq-repository\">Install Wine from WineHQ repository<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>While it is easy to install Wine from the official Fedora repository, a challenge arises when you want to choose the variant to use. There are three variants of Wine;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Stable:<\/strong> This variant can be used in mission critical installations as its working is guaranteed as compared to the others. It is the recommended version.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Staging:<\/strong> As the name suggest, it is used for test purposes and contains the latest updates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Development:<\/strong> Used to provide development headers, mostly used by third party software compilation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>To install any of the variants, we  first need to add <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.winehq.org\/Fedora\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wineHQ<\/a> repo as follows;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https:\/\/dl.winehq.org\/wine-builds\/fedora\/33\/winehq.repo<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>We can then install each of the variants;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Stable<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>sudo dnf -y install winehq-stable<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Development<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>sudo dnf -y install winehq-devel<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Staging<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>sudo dnf -y install winehq-staging<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check if the installation is complete as follows;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>rpm -qi winehq-stable<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>Name        : winehq-stable\nEpoch       : 1\nVersion     : 6.0.0\nRelease     : 2.1\nArchitecture: x86_64\nInstall Date: Sun 24 Jan 2021 23:18:54 GMT\nGroup       : Emulators\nSize        : 63883\nLicense     : LGPLv2+\nSignature   : RSA\/SHA512, Fri 15 Jan 2021 19:55:11 GMT, Key ID 76f1a20ff987672f\nSource RPM  : wine-stable-6.0.0-2.1.src.rpm\nBuild Date  : Thu 14 Jan 2021 19:06:03 GMT\nBuild Host  : cloud118\nVendor      : obs:\/\/build.opensuse.org\/Emulators\nURL         : https:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\nSummary     : WINE Is Not An Emulator - runs MS Windows programs\nDescription :\nWine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs\n(including DOS, Windows 3.x and Win32 executables) on Unix.\n\nThis compatibility package allows to use wine-stable64 system-wide as\nthe default Wine version.<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>After installation, you can proceed with your configurations using winecfg command to load WineHQ configuration GUI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><code>winefcfg<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selection_001111.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7784\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selection_001111.png?v=1611531125 433w, https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selection_001111-150x175.png?v=1611531125 150w, https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selection_001111-300x350.png?v=1611531125 300w, https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Selection_001111-360x420.png?v=1611531125 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>This marks the end of our tutorial on installing Wine 6 on Fedora 33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Tutorials<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/install-wine-6-on-debian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Install Wine 6 on Debian 10<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/install-wine-6-on-ubuntu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">Install Wine 6 on Ubuntu 20.04<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wine (an acronym for &#8220;Wine Is Not an Emulator&#8221;) is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, such as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[3005,3029,3069,3070,3071,3018,3068],"class_list":["post-7639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-fedora-33","tag-install-wine","tag-install-wine-6-fedora-33","tag-install-wine-fedora","tag-install-wine-linux","tag-wine-6","tag-winehq","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7639"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21953,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7639\/revisions\/21953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kifarunix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}