Is wine possible in Redhat EL-4

[raji10k]

Hi Frndz

I want to install wine in RHEL-4 and searched wind official website but am not able to find how to install wine in my Redhat EL-4.

So Plz help me out of this......

Thanks in Advance

[reed9]

It's right on the download page. WineHQ - Wine Binary Downloads

Why are you installing an enterprise distribution? Red Hat is generally more for mainframes, servers, etc. And why, if you're going to do that, install the old one, and not get the most recent release? Hardware support is going to be much more problematic on Red Hat than, say, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.

[meton_magis]

USE THE SOURCE LUKE.

you can download the source off the wine page. Then extract it to a temporary directory. Open a terminal, and type `./configure` and post the last 30 or so lines of the results so we can help you figure out what library you don't have installed.

but using Fedora would be easier (still redhat based) you can just type `yum install wine` and be done with it.

[raji10k]

Hi reed9

Thanks for sending links but am not able to get what exatly to download my frnd
So can u plz help me....?

Thanks in Advance

[Rubberman]

Hi Frndz

I want to install wine in RHEL-4 and searched wind official website but am not able to find how to install wine in my Redhat EL-4.

So Plz help me out of this......

Thanks in Advance

There are binary RPM files that you can download from the Fedora Project and install using rpm. Here is a link to the binaries (the Wine rpm's are toward the end of the page): Fedora Project

[raji10k]

Hi rubberman

thanks for sending links but do i need to download all the rpm's
please..................!

Thanks in advance

[reed9]

The easiest thing is to enable the EPEL repository so you can use your package manager. (EPEL=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux.)

su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm'
su -c 'yum install wine'

[Rubberman]

Re. downloading all rpm's. The short answer is yes. Most of them are needed. Some are optional. I'm not sure off hand which are required and which aren't. As for the suggestion to enable the EPEL repository, I'm not sure if that would work for you in RHEL 4. If it does, then great. If not, then do the download thing. At least you know that the rpm's are built for RHEL4 systems, so they should work ok.

[reed9]

Should work with RHEL 4. According to the website

EPEL project provides add-on packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x and 4.x releases and compatible derivatives. Packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and 2.1 are not provided since they are under maintenance phase following the errata support policy from Red Hat and packages sourced from Fedora is unlikely to build properly against the older version of packages available in these releases making it very difficult to maintain properly.

[raji10k]

Thanks a lot Frndz