[PLEASE HELP] Trying to install wine in Amazon AWS EC2

gyu5point0 · Post by **gyu5point0** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:57 am

I looked everywhere for information on how to install wine in the Amazon AWS cloud.

Can somebody please point me to some working binaries and which AMI to use? And possibly some installation instructions?

I'm just trying to run some simple Windows console applications (from MS-DOS)... nothing fancy. But wine just doesn't want to install or run in AWS. Surely many people have installed wine in the Amazon cloud a thousand times, right?

Thanks for any help.

perryh · Post by **perryh** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 2:49 am

"gyu5point0" <[email protected]> wrote:

I looked everywhere for information on how to install wine in the
Amazon AWS cloud.

Can somebody please point me to some working binaries and which
AMI to use? And possibly some installation instructions?

I'm just trying to run some simple Windows console applications
(from MS-DOS)... nothing fancy. But wine just doesn't want to
install or run in AWS. Surely many people have installed wine
in the Amazon cloud a thousand times, right?

Most MS-DOS programs will run better in dosbox than in wine, so
if dosbox will run in AWS it may save you the trouble of getting
wine to run there. I personally have no idea whether either one
will work.

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:58 am

gyu5point0 wrote:I looked everywhere for information on how to install wine in the Amazon AWS cloud.

Can somebody please point me to some working binaries and which AMI to use? And possibly some installation instructions?

Ask on the AWS support forum. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=30

KenJackson · Post by **KenJackson** » Sat Dec 31, 2011 1:15 pm

gyu5point0 wrote:I looked everywhere for information on how to install wine in the Amazon AWS cloud.

I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to do.

First, what host OS are you using? Linux? Which distro?

Second, are you trying to install the Wine executables, fonts and data files on Amazon AWS? If so, what directory structure are you using? How are you installing it?

Or are you just trying to install your .wine directory on Amazon AWS?

Third, how are you accessing Amazon AWS?

Fedora Linux has a package fuse-s3fs in their repository that allows you to mount an Amazon S3 storage facility in your file system using fuse. (I've been thinking about it, but haven't tried it yet.)

In theory, if you want to put your .wine directory in the cloud, I think you would mount the service with fuse, set the WINEPREFIX variable to a .wine subdirectory of the mount, and run wineboot.