How To Install wine-common on CentOS 8

wine-common is Common files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-common on CentOS 8.

What is wine-common

Common wine files and scripts.

We can use yum or dnf to install wine-common on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wine-common.

Install wine-common on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install wine-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wine-common

Install wine-common on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install wine-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wine-common

How To Uninstall wine-common on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the wine-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wine-common

wine-common Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/msiexec
/usr/bin/notepad
/usr/bin/regedit
/usr/bin/regsvr32
/usr/bin/wineboot
/usr/bin/winecfg
/usr/bin/wineconsole
/usr/bin/winedbg
/usr/bin/winefile
/usr/bin/winemaker
/usr/bin/winemine
/usr/bin/winepath
/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/man1/wine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de.UTF-8/man1/wineserver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8/man1/wine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr.UTF-8/man1/wineserver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/msiexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/notepad.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/regedit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/regsvr32.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wineboot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/winecfg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wineconsole.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/winefile.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/winemine.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/winepath.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wineserver.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl.UTF-8/man1/wine.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-common on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.