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h1. Wine

Installing AdiIRC in "Wine":https://www.winehq.org/ on 64 bit Ubuntu and OS X.

"Wine":https://www.winehq.org is a Windows compatibility layer which allows you to run many Windows programs on Linux/OS X.

"Winetricks":https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks is a script to help you install various Windows components and programs.

AdiIRC does NOT work in "mono":https://www.mono-project.com/.

h2. Install "Wine":https://www.winehq.org/

On Ubuntu/Debian Type:

<pre>
apt-get install wine
</pre>

On OS X type:

<pre>
# 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
</pre>

h2. Create a 32 bit "Wine":https://www.winehq.org/ prefix

Wine does not allow running 64 bit .NET applications, so you must create a 32 bit wine folder.

Type:

<pre>
WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg
</pre>

h2. Download "Winetricks":https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks

Type:

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

h2. Install ".NET":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework using "Winetricks":https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks

If you downloaded the 32 bit .NET 2.0 version of AdiIRC (recommended) type:

<pre>
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 ./winetricks dotnet20
</pre>

If you downloaded the 32 bit .NET 4.5 version of AdiIRC (not recommended) type:

<pre>
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 ./winetricks dotnet45
</pre>

h2. Run AdiIRC with "Wine":https://www.winehq.org/

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

<pre>
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine AdiIRC.exe
</pre>