Questions tagged [wine]
Open Source Software for running Windows applications on other operating systems. Use this tag for questions about installing or using Wine.
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Wine cmd automatically escapes quotes, adds backslash
$ wine cmd /c 'echo "hello world"'
\"hello world\"
Where do the backslashes come from?
The command behaves differently in an interactive session:
$ wine cmd
Microsoft Windows 6.1....
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VSTs run with LinVst use huge amount of RAM per instance
I'm trying to use a fairly average plugin in terms of CPU and RAM usage in Windows - Adam Szabo's Viper. In Windows it uses about 100MB per instance while running it through LinVst is uses 4GB per ...
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Is there a way to quickly switch DXVK on or off?
I use a wineprefix for music production and some plugins require DXVK while others have problems with it.
Ideally I could separate them, but currently that doesn't work and I set this up before I knew ...
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How to get an application running under Wine to send command output directly to the CMD console?
My Windows' app, when run under Wine (wine-9.0 (Ubuntu 9.0~repack-4build3)) is unable to write anything to the CMD console, in order to see the output I have to redirect it to a file and then open ...
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How to run a host linux command tool from wine?
Inside cmd.exe from wine, how to run /bin/ls and get output into cmd.exe, no DISPLAY, cli only. I know start /unix exists, but this attempt to launch an external job/window. I am in terminal only, and ...
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how to determine to what .dll we need to rename the files extracted with cabextract?
how to determine to what .dll we need to rename the files extracted with cabextract?
ex.:
$ cabextract -l vc_redist.x64.exe
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204800 | 16.08.2024 06:10:42 | a10
10869002 | 16.08.2024 05:37:14 |...
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How to use Windows app Teltonika Configurator (MS .NET) on Linux? (how to use Wine or mono or other solution)
I have been a Debian user for many years, but at a basic level.
Now I need to work with an application available only for Windows - Teltonika Configurator (version for GH5200 tracker):
https://wiki....
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Bottles (Wine) - The "bottles-cli" is not passing arguments to the program it runs
The Bottles (Wine) CLI (bottles-cli) is not passing arguments to the program it runs ("run" option).
In the example below, the Notepad++ program does not receive the arguments -multiInst -...
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Guix patching is different than doing it manually
I'm trying to build wine-staging from a custom Guix package definition (wine-10.scm) that I've created, based on the official Guix package definitions for Wine. My goal is to build a newer version of ...
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Bottles (Wine) network speed is much slower than system's speed
I'm running Bottles on Debian 12. Trying to install a program, I get at most 13Mb/s, and I always get a 10600 error at the end of the download part of the install (it takes about 45 min), so it fails. ...
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Using PyInstaller with Wine: Path Issue Between Linux and Wine Environment
I have this linux distro:
Distributor ID: Kali
Description: Kali GNU/Linux Rolling
Release: 2024.4
Codename: kali-rolling
I have wine installed correctly wine-9.0 and I installed a ...
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How to enable Pen Pressure in Clip Studio Paint installed via Bottles? (Linux Mint)
I have Clip Studio Paint version 2.2.0 installed. It sees my graphics tablet as a mouse.
My OS:
Linux Mint 22 Wilma / Cinnamon
Dependencies that I downloaded:
vcrun 2019 and 2015
fonts
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Ubuntu 24.04 - 64bits - Install wine32:i386
These commands was executed previously
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt -f install
sudo apt --fix-broken install
Now, Wine recommends me to install wine32:i386 so I proceed to install ...
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Wine Converted App (Fox Weiqi) Not Showing Chinese (or CJK) Characters
I'm able to run the Fox Weiqi client (the foreign version) perfectly with Wine.
And I can type and see CJK characters just fine on apps (I use FCITX).
Is Wine not able to access these characters by ...
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Adding a Wine `.lnk` Program to Rofi
I was able to add a program (KaTrain) — which I installed with pipx — to Rofi, following this nice answer:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=/home/phili/.local/bin/katrain
Type=Application
Categories=Go
Name=...
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BASIC Stamp Editor cannot find any usable ports even though Wine auto-links them
I am trying to use Basic Stamp Editor v2.5.4 by Parallax to program my Stamp 2 via the Board of education (the old kind with the RS232 port). I installed the editor via Wine 9.18 (staging), and it ...
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What am I doing wrong here? [closed]
braedendg@penguin:~$ sudo apt-get install wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
wine is already the newest version (8.0~repack-4).
You ...
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Lasergrbl crashes on Linux Mint under wine when trying to connect to comport
I am connecting a Slulpfun S9 laser cutter to my linux laptop. When I try to connect to the comport using the lasergrbl software it (lasergrbl) crashes.
Equipment and software:
Skulpfun S9 laser
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Wine + mp3tag: CJK characters are showing up as squares
Might be best explained with an example:
So this is the folder selection dialog (this album list is from a Korean singer)
This next screenshot is the track listing after selecting an album/folder ...
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FPS drops and stuttering in the World Of Tanks game on Zorin OS
Since updated 1.24. the game produces performance issues on Linux.
I run the game with one of the latest versions of Proton via steam due to the fact that I've already had an wargaming account before ...
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“HttpSendRequest failed” error occurred while starting Roblox
I recently started using Arch.
When I tried running Roblox after installing Wine and Grapejuice,
I encountered this GUI error:
Roblox <2>
An error occurred while starting ...
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How do I reverse a wine install?
I have built wine, the windows emulator from source with a specific patch.
Now accidentally the source directory is removed, after I already run sudo make install.
Is there a way to 'reverse' the ...
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Bottle's app how to access local file
Using Linux Mint Mate 21.3 and Bottles version 51.11,
I've successfully installed PDF-XChange.
Now, I need to open a PDF located outside of Bottles directories.
What's the method to do so?
Also, I'm ...
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Keyboard doesn't work in wine under fvwm2 with FocusFollowsMouse
I'm running Debian 12 with fvwm2 window manager (version 2.7.0) configured for point-to-focus (FocusFollowsMouse) and a few XFCE utilities, such as xfce4-panel.
When I start wine notepad or wine ...
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JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Dos.name=Windows 7" -> Unrecognized option 7
I am trying to install the latest version of PSIM which is a windows application. I downloaded the latest version of JAVA as well as JAVA 8 (in case it doesn't like the latest) and set the variable ...
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Wine doesn't work on Parrot, but it works on Pop OS
I have a problem installing WINE on the Parrot distro which is based on Debian. I cannot install WINE from the official website, WINE on Debian, nor from the repository itself using sudo apt install ...
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Meaning of the aptitude search output for wine-staging
I've installed winehq-staging package from winehq repo in debian 12 instead of from debian repo which I'll be using from Lutris.
After that I listed what got installed with:
aptitude search '?narrow(?...
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Native games on Linux is running perfectly, but games ran through Wine are crashing pc
Neofetch output:
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: X99 Kernel: 6.7.5-zen1-1-zen
Uptime: 13 mins Packages: 903 (pacman), 10 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.2.26
Resolution: 1600x900
DE: Plasma 5.27.10 WM: ...
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How to run a PDF file with wine app (Foxit PDF Editor Pro)?
I want to create a Python function to open a PDF file with the Foxit PDF Editor Pro Application (wine app), my function is as follows:
def open_with_foxit(output_path):
command = ["wine"...
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Illegible fonts in one part of a wine application
I'm having a weird wine font problem when trying to run the Portable D&D 4e Compendium on linux.
Here's an image of the issue:
As you can see (it might be easier to see if you open it fully ...
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Why is one of my files missing when using wine?
I have a directory with a collection of mp3 files. I plan to use a Windows program in wine on them, but one of the files -- 09.mp3 -- is "invisible" to wine.
The program I'm using ignores ...
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Scheduling wine exe using cron job raises error
I have been trying to schedule an exe file which runs an underlying python script.
When I run it manually (wine sample.exe) on Debian Linux, it runs as expected, however when I run it using cron, it ...
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How to fix Wine/Bottles error "Unable to load libGLX_nvidia.so.0"
When I run programs in Wine using Bottles, I get the message: (ERROR) Unable to load libGLX_nvidia.so.0.
I do have an Nvidia card.
What causes this error and how do I fix it?
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How to install Google Sketchup v8 on Wine?
I am trying to install the last free version of Google SketchUp from before it became a webapp, on Wine.
The installer I have is v8.0.16846. When I open it with Wine 8.0.2, a dialog pops up with a ...
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How to install Visual C++ runtime 14 on Wine?
I am trying to install SketchUp on Wine. One of the prerequisites is Visual C++ "14" Runtime Libraries (x64).
When I try to run the installer, it fails with 0x8007065b - Function failed. The ...
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Wine uninstaller not working
I have installed many apps through Wine.
Now, when I need to uninstall an installed app through Wine, normally, I use Wine unistaller. But I don't know why it suddenly stopped working.
When I type ...
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Windows application with ActiveX Control
A Windows Winforms application which makes use of msflexgrid built using visual studio runs correctly on windows.When the same application is made to run on ubuntu using wine ,there are series of ...
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Yet another dependency problem during wine install on Devuan 5
Using Devuan 5, trying to install wine-staging using the WineHQ repositories gives a dependency error : winehq-staging needs wine-staging.
(if you really need the precise error when running sudo apt ...
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Can Wine and/or Playonlinux be used to fix ntfs errors the way Windows does?
Very often, when a ntfs external drive cannot be mounted in Linux because of some more or less obscure motive, simply plugging it onto Windows fixes it, even without running the tool to scan and fix ...
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Can Mono and Wine be used in the same OS? What are the side effects of using both?
For context, I was using a Linux version of BizHawk (A multi system TAS emulator) on Chromebook via the Linux Terminal that required Mono. There was an error (the error being that it crashed when I ...
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How do you connect Wine (Linux/Debian) to a Windows Remote Desktop?
How do you create a remote connection from Wine/Linux to Windows OS? I had been wanting to connect to the Linux Environment on my Chromebook for some time. I want to try to play games on my Chromebook ...
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Unable to install wine32: "unmet dependencies" that are actually met (Ubuntu 22.04)
I have installed wine64 without issue, but I cannot install wine32. I have tried both the normal sudo apt install wine32 and sudo apt install -t jammy-backports wine32, and both result in the ...
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Is it possible to merge two (or more) joysticks into one virtual one?
With a more powerful graphics adapter comes the luxury of playing games in Linux (mostly using Lutris/Wine).
I have the classical bundle of CH Products joystick (Fighterstick, Pro Throttle and Pro ...
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Launch bottles application from command line
I have installed bottles for Windows application emulation.
I am trying to start an application via command line but have not been able to start the application automatically. It opens up the bottle ...
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How to pipe STDIO from a thread process to /dev/null?
I am trying to run Plarium Play with wine, but have encountered an odd issue. When trying to launch it from a regular desktop entry, I get this JavaScript error:
This does not happen if I launch from ...
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Steam not running proton games on separate EXT4 partition
I have a multi user system and if possible I'd like to prevent downloading every game 3 times.
Because of that I made a separate ext4 partition for my steam games and selected the partition in steam
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How to install Battle.net through Steam?
I don't even know if it is possible, I saw it nowhere.
My guess is that Linux Steam has a powerful cross-platform software part called Proton able to run any Windows software, most of the time better ...
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Can't run non-native games [wine-ge, nvidia proprietary]
I'm on manjaro linux and using wine-ge-custom package. Somewhere around 8.x releases both wine and proton stopped running any games. Lutris log says this:
wine: Using setpriority to control niceness ...
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Wine http port not responding (Multi-port application)
we have a long term problem with our wine-docker game server. The Game is running fine but it offers a remote client on a http port (8080) which does not respond. I thought maybe someone here who is ...
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Having trouble with TRON 2.0 WAN multiplayer on Proton
So, I'm trying to do WAN multiplayer in TRON 2.0 (Windows-only game released decades ago and is now on Steam), but I can't see any servers (listed on GameSpy), and my friend can't connect to me with ...
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