winetricks - install wine application perquisites with ease
As most of us know wine is used to run windows applications on linux. But setting it up always has been pain. For example if your windows program requires some prerequisites that aren't shipped or not implemented in wine then you have to go for hunting on net. Examples include mscore fonts, Internet Explorer, DCOM, etc. And this guide explains how to install winetricks on ubuntu.Crossover office has a little wizard that will download install all the prerequisites of a particular software but It costs money to use. But there is one little known tool called winetricks which you can use to automate that stuff for free. Finally you can concentrate on something productive rather than hunting for some obscure stuff.Download winetricksUse following commands to get winetricks and set it up.
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricksUsing winetricksFor example if you want to install Microsoft Core fonts use following command../winetricks corefontsFollowing are wine…
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