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 "...
Wireshark is a great and may be most widely used network protocol analyzer. In last few months I had used it extensively in a network project. Wireshark was a great help in debugging hard to find protocol problems. During this project I was using Ubuntu 10.04 as my development environment. I installed wireshark using sudo apt-get install wireshark But default wireshark version provided by Ubuntu 10.04 repository is 1.2.7 which was not suiting my purpose. I needed the newer versions of wireshark which provides some important features for analyzing protocols. There are 2 ways to upgrade your wireshark version from the default version provided by Ubuntu - Add a third party repository to your repo conf and you can upgrade the wireshark. But I do not prefer this way as it imposes the restriction of version that can be installed. Install wireshark from source. This is best way as you can install any version of wireshark in your Ubuntu. Here are the steps to follow - ...