Wine is a software to allow running Windows applications in Linux, MAC etc. platforms. It is available for installation from package managers like yum (RHEL, CentOS) and apt (Ubuntu). You can find more details on how it works in Wine wiki . But the default Wine package available from package manager does not have support for 32 bit Windows applications. This was the case for me. In Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.3, the wine package did not contain support for 32 bit windows applications. So the only option was to build a separate rpm of wine which will include this support. All the steps are executed on a RHEL 7.3 VM (x86_64). Step 1 Download and run shell script which will make wine 64 and 32 support for RHEL: https://github.com/zma/usefulscripts/blob/master/script/install-wine-i686-centos7.sh It accepts a version no. as CLI parameter e.g. 2.0.3 The script installs wine in /usr/local/ directory by default. We can verify the files that are being copied for wine using "
I could not post anything last month though all the time I was dying to post something. The reason behind this was I change in my profession profile. Actually, I changed my employer. All of the last month I was busy in official work and to settle down in my new office. The last week of the year is normally a holiday in the new company. So, I could rest a while in my home and able to write the blog post. Though I had a couple of other topics in mind but writing them will take more time which I don't want to spend during the festivities. So, I'll discuss about a simple but useful thing. How many of us in Java sphere use log4j for logging? You know the answer. log4j is a very popular logging framework. Configuring log4j is quite simple. Still when you get the task of doing it, you try to find an example (I do the same). That is why I'll show a simple log4j configuration to print to a file. There are 2 ways to configure log4j, log4j.properties and log4j.xml. I prefer the