Creative Tools

Running Windows Apps on Debian / Ubuntu

Install Wine

> add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
> dpkg --add-architecture i386
> apt-get update
> apt-get install --install-recommends wine-staging
> echo 'export PATH=$PATH:/opt/wine-staging/bin' >> ~/.bashrc

Install Winetricks + dependencies

> apt install winetricks

Install latest Winetricks

> apt-get remove winetricks
> wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
> chmod +x winetricks
> mv -v winetricks /usr/bin

Run desired application

> wine application.exe

Eventually remove Wine & Winetricks

> apt-get remove wine2.0
> apt-get remove wine-staging
> apt-get autoremove

Running Windows Apps on OS X

Install Wineskin or WineBottler

• Wineskin
• WineBottler

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