Hi there.
I'm wanting to run a few windows programs on my mac and Wine was recommended but to be honest I can't make heads or tails of whats going on.
When I go to the downloads I'm faced with about 10 choices of downloads that make no sense to me.
Could someone point out what i'm supposed to download and install? and How
Cheers and kind regards.
-M
OSX 10.8.2
2.3 GHz intel core i5
can't make heads or tails of this
Re: can't make heads or tails of this
never mind... got it.
Re: can't make heads or tails of this
Hi metrobot,
I would suggest to install wine over MacPorts since you might have no experience in compiling wine from source. Over MacPorts it's an easy and pleasant way to do so, although it will take you some time and patience
1.) Go to the MacPorts Website: http://www.macports.org/install.php and choose the installation package for your OS (--> Mountain Lion)
2.) Install the package
3.) Open a window in terminal and type in: sudo port install wine-devel (and hit the enter button) --> it's not the latest version althoug (v1.5.22). This will take a long time (up to 3 hours) because wine needs a lot of dependencies (so go for a walk or have a chat with some friends or even better watch your favourite movie
)
4.) You can see that wine has finished its installation when your computer's name is shown again in the command line of Terminal (like YOUR_COMPUTERS_NAME: ~YOUR USER DIRECTORY)
5.) Check if wine has been successfully installed. Type in: wine --version
If the responds is a version number, congrats!
6.) Now you can run your windows programs: Change into your directory where you have stored your installation packages with typing in Terminal: cd (which means change directory) and over drag'n'drop you can insert the folder's path name --> simply grab your folder with the mouse and pull it into the terminal window. Hit the Enter-Button
7.) To install a porgram type in: wine NAME_OF_YOUR_EXE-FILE (for example wine npp.6.2.3.Installer.exe (which would be notepad++)
8.) Let wine do the magic. Usually the programs are installed into the drive_c/Program Files/...
9.) To check if your program has installed type in Terminal: open ~/.wine There you will see a directory called drive_c and in it one that is called Program Files. There your Windows Programs are usually installed.
10.) Let's run the program! Type in terminal: wine NAME_OF_WINDOWS_PROGRAM.exe (Make sure, you're in the Program Files Directory and there in the Application's folder). I would recommed you as well to use the drag'n'drop option by simply grab the .EXE-File with your mouse and pull it into terminal (logically after you've typed in wine before)
Hope this will work out for you, have fun with your windows programs on your Intel-Chip based Mac
Cheers mate,
Maexel
I would suggest to install wine over MacPorts since you might have no experience in compiling wine from source. Over MacPorts it's an easy and pleasant way to do so, although it will take you some time and patience
1.) Go to the MacPorts Website: http://www.macports.org/install.php and choose the installation package for your OS (--> Mountain Lion)
2.) Install the package
3.) Open a window in terminal and type in: sudo port install wine-devel (and hit the enter button) --> it's not the latest version althoug (v1.5.22). This will take a long time (up to 3 hours) because wine needs a lot of dependencies (so go for a walk or have a chat with some friends or even better watch your favourite movie
)4.) You can see that wine has finished its installation when your computer's name is shown again in the command line of Terminal (like YOUR_COMPUTERS_NAME: ~YOUR USER DIRECTORY)
5.) Check if wine has been successfully installed. Type in: wine --version
If the responds is a version number, congrats!
6.) Now you can run your windows programs: Change into your directory where you have stored your installation packages with typing in Terminal: cd (which means change directory) and over drag'n'drop you can insert the folder's path name --> simply grab your folder with the mouse and pull it into the terminal window
. Hit the Enter-Button 7.) To install a porgram type in: wine NAME_OF_YOUR_EXE-FILE (for example wine npp.6.2.3.Installer.exe (which would be notepad++)
8.) Let wine do the magic. Usually the programs are installed into the drive_c/Program Files/...
9.) To check if your program has installed type in Terminal: open ~/.wine There you will see a directory called drive_c and in it one that is called Program Files. There your Windows Programs are usually installed.
10.) Let's run the program
! Type in terminal: wine NAME_OF_WINDOWS_PROGRAM.exe (Make sure, you're in the Program Files Directory and there in the Application's folder). I would recommed you as well to use the drag'n'drop option by simply grab the .EXE-File with your mouse and pull it into terminal (logically after you've typed in wine before)Hope this will work out for you, have fun with your windows programs on your Intel-Chip based Mac
Cheers mate,
Maexel
Re: can't make heads or tails of this
Normal Wine is all build yourself and run command line. Macports makes that easier.
You can also look at Third Party tools (not supported here) that use Wine, like Crossover or Wineskin.
You can also look at Third Party tools (not supported here) that use Wine, like Crossover or Wineskin.
