How to run any Windows software in Ubuntu

Sometimes it’s very important or required to run a .exe file,  Either we need to boot a system to open Windows OS in dual boot or we need a new separate windows machine. To increase productivity, you can install a .exe file on Linux only using Wine Tool.

Wine Tool is an open source tool, that allows to run any windows software to run on Linux environment.

• wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
• sudo apt-key add Release.key && sudo apt-add-repository ‘https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/’
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install –install-recommends winehq-devel

 

To run any programme in wine use below command-

# wine <program name>

For example – # wine vlc.exe

 

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