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

AdiIRC does NOT work in mono.

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¶

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

Type:

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg

Download Winetricks¶

Type:

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

Install .NET using Winetricks¶

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

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 ./winetricks dotnet20

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

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 ./winetricks dotnet45

Run AdiIRC with Wine¶

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

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine AdiIRC.exe

Wine themes¶

It's possible to skin Wine/Windows programs to look more native in a Linux environment, check https://askubuntu.com/questions/219791/improve-gui-appearance-of-wine-applications/756781 for examples.

Headless wine¶

There has been some success running Wine headless using xvfb through screen.

WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 screen xvfb-run wine AdiIRC.exe