Windows apps on fedora

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This will be your Linux credential for the Ubuntu distribution. If you already have WSL installed on your machine, you can update to the latest version that includes Linux GUI support by running the update command from an elevated command prompt. You will need to restart WSL for the update to take effect. You can run the following commands from your Linux terminal to download and install these popular Linux applications.

If you are using a different distribution than Ubuntu, it may use a different package manager than apt. Once the Linux application is installed, you can find it in your Start menu under the distribution name. Add powershell core. Nov 18, Move app files to install. Nov 19, Updated installer to autodetect applications. Nov 20, Added KVM documentation.

Icon update. Nov 10, Update installer multi-select. Sep 28, Before we go on installing and running applications in Wine, we should have clear idea about a few things and about how to configure Wine for usage:. Windows applications need a C: drive. Wine uses a virtual C: drive for this purpose. The directory of this virtual C: drive is called wineprefix.

First of all, we need to create a wineprefix. For doing that, fire up a terminal and enter this command:. This will create a wineprefix and open the configuration window for Wine. You can change the configuration options if you want or let it be as is for time being and close it. Now, you can locate the virtual C: drive at.

The general rule is to install each new application into a fresh wineprefix. We can create and maintain multiple wineprefix manually. But that task would seem rather tedious for the beginners. So, we will skip that part for now. Installing a supported application in Wine is generally as easy as double-clicking on the installation file. However, we are now going to see a step-by-step guide for installing 7-zip on Wine.

First of all, check for 7-zip rating on Wine Application Database. It has Platinum rating, so we are good to go. Open Wine configuration winecfg and set the Windows Version to Windows 7.

See that destination folder path? If you want to access your files on Linux, they are generally located in Z: Drive. You can use the 7-zip just as you would use it on Windows — for extracting and creating archives and such. You might have noticed that, at Wine Application Database, with every version of application review a specific Wine version is mentioned. It is because of the rapid development rate of Wine. Though an application runs with the current version of Wine, it might not run with a future version, because of the changes made.

So that, an application has no chance of interfering with another. And doing all these manually, usually from the terminal, is time-consuming, tiresome and at times, confusing. PlayOnLinux is here to rescue.