How To Install wine-desktop on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-desktop on CentOS 8.
What is wine-desktop
Desktop integration features for wine, including mime-types and a binary format handler service.
We can use yum or dnf to install wine-desktop on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wine-desktop.
Install wine-desktop 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-desktop using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wine-desktop
Install wine-desktop 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-desktop using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install wine-desktop
How To Uninstall wine-desktop on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the wine-desktop package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wine-desktop
wine-desktop Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged/wine.menu
/usr/share/applications/wine-mime-msi.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-notepad.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-oleview.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-regedit.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-uninstaller.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-wineboot.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-winecfg.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-winefile.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-winemine.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-winhelp.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine-wordpad.desktop
/usr/share/applications/wine.desktop
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Wine.directory
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/msiexec.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/notepad.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/regedit.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wine.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/winecfg.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/winefile.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/winemine.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/winhelp.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/wordpad.svg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine-desktop on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.