1.5. Basic Wine Requirements

          Written by Andreas Mohr 
          Modified by Dustin Navea 
        

This section only mentions the most basic system requirements of Wine, in order to ease your Wine "purchasing decision" ;-) For an up-to-date much more detailed list of requirements for compiling and/or installing Wine, please read the REQUIREMENTS section of the README file, which is also available in the main directory of a Wine source code tree.

In case of a binary Wine package, these Wine requirements will probably be fulfilled automatically by the package installation process; if you want to have a look at the detailed requirements nevertheless (which definitely can't hurt!), then I'd like to mention that the README file can also frequently be found in the documentation files directory of a Wine package.

1.5.1. System requirements

In order to run Wine, you generally need the following: