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<para>
Once you got your copy of Wine, you might need to follow the
next chapter <link linkend="compiling">Compiling</link> if you
got Wine source code.
decided to get Wine source code.
Otherwise, the next chapter <link
linkend="installing">Installing Wine</link> will explain the
methods to use to install the Wine files to some location
on your system (alternatively the chapter <link
linkend="compiling">Compiling</link> will explain first how to
compile Wine if you choose to use Wine source code).
methods to use to install the Wine binary files to some location
on your system.
</para>
<para>
Once Wine is installed on your system, the next chapter <link
linkend="config-wine-main">Configuring Wine</link> will
focus on the available configuration methods for Wine: there are
either graphical (e.g. WineSetupTk) or text mode (wineinstall)
configuration helper applications available that will
focus on the available configuration methods for Wine to set up
a proper Wine/Windows environment with all its requirements:
there are either graphical (e.g. WineSetupTk) or text mode
(wineinstall) configuration helper applications available that will
fully configure the Wine environment for you.
And For those people who dislike a fully automated
And for those people who dislike a fully automated
installation (maybe because they really want to know what they're
doing), we'll describe how to manually set up a complete Wine
environment configuration.
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<para>
Once the configuration of the Wine environment is done, the
next chapter <link linkend="running">Running Wine</link>
will show you how to run Wine and how to satisfy
the requirements of certain Windows programs.
will show you how to run Windows programs with Wine and
how to satisfy the more specific requirements of certain
Windows programs.
</para>
<para>
In case you run into trouble, the chapter <link
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program package e.g. available on CD), or as natively compiled
<ulink url="http://www.xfree86.org/#whatis">X11 (X-Window
System)</ulink> applications (via the part of Wine that's called
Winelib). If you're interested in compiling your Windows program
source code, then please refer to the Winelib User's Guide
instead, which explains this particular topic.
The Wine Users Guide however will focus on running standard
Winelib). If you're interested in compiling the source code of a
Windows program you wrote, then please refer to the
Winelib User's Guide instead, which explains this particular topic.
This Wine Users Guide however will focus on running standard
Windows applications using Wine.
</para>
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</sect1>
<sect1 id="competition">
<title>Alternatives to Wine you might want to consider</title>
<para>
We'll mention some alternatives (or we could also say:
competitors) to Wine here that might come in handy if Wine is
not usable for the program or job you want it to do, since
these alternatives usually provide better Windows compatibility.
</para>
<sect2>
<title>VMWare</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.vmware.com">VMWare</ulink> is a
software package to emulate an additional machine on your PC.
In other words, it establishes a virtual machine that can be
used to run any kind of Intel x86 compatible operating system
in parallel to your currently running operating system.
Thus you could use Linux and at the same time run Windows 98
in a virtual machine on the same screen.
</para>
<para>
Sounds nice, doesn't it? Well, there are some drawbacks, of
course... First, VMWare is pretty expensive, and second, you
need a licensed copy of the operating system you want to run.
Third, since VMWare is a virtual machine, it's quite slow.
Wine doesn't have any of these limitations, but unfortunately
this also means that you will not have the relatively good
compatibility of a real original Windows system if you use
Wine.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2>
<title>Win4Lin</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.win4lin.com">Win4Lin</ulink> by
NeTraverse allows you to run a special version of Win98 in
Linux. Compared to VMWare, this has the advantage that it's
faster, but you still have the license fees.
</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="wine-stats">
<title>Basic Wine Requirements</title>

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<para>
Written by &name-john-sheets; <email>&email-john-sheets;</email>
Modified by &name-andreas-mohr; <email>&email-andreas-mohr;</email>
</para>
<para>
Extended by &name-mike-hearn; <email>&email-mike-hearn;</email>, &name-eric-pouech; <email>&email-eric-pouech;</email>
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support programs etc.
</para>
<para>
This chapter will describe all aspects of running Wine, like e.g.
basic Wine invocation, command line parameters of various Wine
support programs etc.
</para>
<para>
</para>
<sect1 id="basic-usage">
<title>Basic usage: applications and control panel applets</title>
<para>
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remember to include the double quotes. Some programs don't
always use obvious naming for their directories and EXE files,
so you might have to look inside the program files directory to
see what it put where
see what it put where.
</para>
</sect1>