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 needed a system outside my company firewall to access access some internet based applications. I wanted to use a web browse from that. But all I had was, a cloud node running Ubuntu 10.04 with command line access to it. I installed VNC server in that to run firefox web browser. Steps are below - sudo apt-get install xinit sudo apt-get install x11vnc sudo xinit & x11vnc -safer -localhost -nopw -xkb -once -display :0 & Create a ssh connection from Putty. I have user ssh port forwarding feature to make the connection secure. After configuring normal host name, user id or ssh key etc. go to Connection > SSH > Tunnels section. Input 5902 for Source and localhost:5900 for Destination. Click Add. Now open this session from Putty. Download Tightvnc java client and unzip it to some directory. Run the jar file that was extracted in last step. In the new window, input 127.0.0.1 for Server and 5902 for port. It should launch another window showing Ubuntu system. No