How To Install wine on Fedora 34

wine is A compatibility layer for windows applications A compatibility layer for windows applications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine on Fedora 34.

What is `wine`

Wine as a compatibility layer for UNIX to run Windows applications. This package includes a program loader, which allows unmodified Windows 3.x/9x/NT binaries to run on x86 and x86_64 Unixes. Wine can use native system .dll files if they are available. In Fedora wine is a meta-package which will install everything needed for wine to work smoothly. Smaller setups can be achieved by installing some of the wine-* sub packages. wine 6.13 1.fc34 x86_64 12 k wine-6.13-1.fc34.src.rpm updates A compatibility layer for windows applications https LGPLv2+ Wine as a compatibility layer for UNIX to run Windows applications. This package includes a program loader, which allows unmodified Windows 3.x/9x/NT binaries to run on x86 and x86_64 Unixes. Wine can use native system .dll files if they are available. In Fedora wine is a meta-package which will install everything needed for wine to work smoothly. Smaller setups can be achieved by installing some of the wine-* sub packages.

We can use yum or dnf to install wine on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wine.

Install wine on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install wine

Install wine on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install wine

How To Uninstall wine on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wine

wine Package Contents on Fedora 34

References

[wine website](https://www.winehq.org/ https://www.winehq.org/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wine on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.