How To Install wine on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine on Rocky Linux 8.
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.
We can use yum or dnf to install wine on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install wine.
Install wine on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install wine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install wine
Install wine on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the wine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove wine
wine Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wine on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.