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Wine

Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on Linux. The bundle packages version 8.0.1.

UFS HPC Usage Example

Wine can be used by first loadng the module:

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module load wine
The Wine utilities can then be run as shown below. 
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wine
wine64
winecfg
wineconsole
A complete desktop can be obtained by running the winedesktop command: 
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winedesktop

The wine_shell commmand can be used for low-level access to the shell. 

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wine_shell

Performance Notes

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UFS HPC Community Guides and Tutorials

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Official site and documentation

Licensing Information

Wine is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1.

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External Guides and Resources

  • If you know of a guide/tutorial that you have found useful, please help us share it by contacting the HPC staff at hpc@ufs.ac.za