• Table of contents
• Wine
  • Install Wine
  • Create a 32 bit Wine prefix
  • Download Winetricks
  • Install .NET using Winetricks
  • Run AdiIRC with Wine

Wine¶

Installing AdiIRC in Wine on 64 bit Ubuntu and OS X.

Wine is a Windows compatibility layer which allows you to run many windows programs on Linux/OS X.

Winetricks is a script to help you install various windows components and programs.

Install Wine¶

On Ubuntu/Debian Type:

apt-get install wine

On OS X type:

# If homebrew is not installed, type
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" 

# Then install Wine through homebrew
brew install wine

Create a 32 bit Wine prefix¶

Type:

# You may have to remove any previous wine folders by typing rm -r ~/.wine
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine winecfg

Skip this step if you are running a 32 bit Linux.

Download Winetricks¶

Type:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks

Install .NET using Winetricks¶

If you downloaded the .NET 2.0 version of AdiIRC type:

./winetricks dotnet20

If you downloaded the .NET 4.5 version of AdiIRC type:

./winetricks dotnet45

Run AdiIRC with Wine¶

After .NET is installed, you should be able to run AdiIRC by typing:

wine AdiIRC.exe