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Wine Snippets

Terminal window
# Run a specific program inside the `wine` environment:
wine command
# Run a specific program in background
wine start command
# Run a program in its location of the Wine prefix
cd ~/my/wine/prefix/folder/
wine start mycommand.exe
# Install/uninstall an MSI package
wine msiexec /i|x path/to/package.msi
# Run `File Explorer`, `Notepad`, or `WordPad`
wine explorer|notepad|write
# Run `Registry Editor`, `Control Panel`, or `Task Manager`:
wine regedit|control|taskmgr
# Run the configuration tool
wine winecfg
# Run Wine Configuration with a specific prefix
WINEPREFIX=~/.newprefix winecfg

Wine Tricks to Install Missing Files, Libraries

Section titled “Wine Tricks to Install Missing Files, Libraries”
Terminal window
# Install corefonts
winetricks corefonts