Comments on: Wine 10.0 Released – Install and Run Windows Software on Linux

By: ttemsk (Mikko)

ttemsk (Mikko) — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:02:35 +0000

Instructions for installing (building, actually) Wine 10.0 for CentOS Stream worked like charm, even for myself who is not combortable with building software from sources.

However, the dependencies installed here are only sufficient for building a 64-bit Wine, which can only run 64-bit Windows binaries. Such a build is triggered by the –enable-win64 flag to the configuration script.

Most people are likely interested to build a Wine version hosted in a 64-bit OS (such as CentOS), but capable of running both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows binaries. Such a build is triggered by a different flag:
> ./configure –enable-archs=i386,x86_64
> make

See https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Building-Wine

Such a build requires pre-installing one more dependency, namely a compiler capable of generating PE or Portable Executables. Me and Claude Sonnet figured out that there are no suitable compilers in the CentOS or EPEL repositories. The mstorsjo/llvm-mingw project in GitHub however provides a suitable compiler collection. The steps are:

– Download a recent version of the llvm-mingw–ucrt-ubuntu-22.04-x86_64.tar.xz
(Ignore the ‘ubuntu’: that is the system used to build the library, not the target system)
– Use tar to extract contents, eg. to an /opt subdirectory
– Add the /opt//bin to $PATH
(Now the Wine config script finds the compilers)
– Launch the Wine build configure script with the –enable-archs=i386,x86_64 flag
– Launch make

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:16:49 +0000

In reply to aamir_ams@yahoo.com.

@Aamir,

On RHEL 8, the recommended way to install Bottles is through Flatpak, which ensures you get the latest stable version with all dependencies managed automatically.

sudo dnf install epel-release -y
sudo dnf install flatpak -y
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub com.usebottles.bottles -y
flatpak run com.usebottles.bottles

By: aamir_ams@yahoo.com

aamir_ams@yahoo.com — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:07:26 +0000

Could you please tell me how to install Bottles on RHEL 8?

By: nicu

nicu — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:33:05 +0000

Pro tip: You don’t need either the Workstation meta-package or the GNOME desktop in order to run Wine on Fedora.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 04:10:25 +0000

In reply to YOgesh A M.

@Yogesh,

To install the 32-bit version of Wine on RHEL 9, you’ll need to install the necessary 32-bit development packages installed, particularly those related to Xlib.

sudo dnf install libX11-devel.i686

After installing the required packages, you can attempt to configure Wine again with the:

./configure --enable-win
make
sudo make install

This should successfully configure and install the 32-bit version of Wine on your RHEL 9 system.