Wine installation on Solaris 5.11

The goal of this installation is to run a native Solaris 10 on my notebook, using BrandZ (See my previous post) to run Linux applications in a zone and Wine to run Windows tools.

Why do I need Windows binaries support? I’m using tools which run only on a Wintel platform (such as my company Checkpoint Firewall-1 management tools).

The test hadware was a Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook (model S7010D)

Step 1: Classic Solaris 10 installation. My distribution was a Sol-NV-B36).

# uname -a
SunOS 5.11 snv_36 i86pc i386 i86pc

Step 2: Download and install Wine. Packages are available for Solaris 9 & 10. Mine was wine-0.9.8-solaris-5.10-i86pc-cfw.pkg.gz. Installation is done as root. Once done, you need to fix your $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

# gzip -d wine-0.9.8-solaris-5.10-i86pc-cfw.pkg.gz
# pkgadd -d wine-0.9.8-solaris-5.10-i86pc-cfw.pkg
# PATH=$PATH:/opt/cfw/wine/bin; export PATH
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/opt/cfw/wine/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Step 3: On sidenet.ddo.jp, they are nice Wine tips. One of them is a script to automatically configure your newly installed Wine. I used wine-config-sidenet-1.9.1.tgz (installation done as a non-root user)

$ gzip -d -c wine-config-sidenet-1.9.1.tgz | tar xvf -
$ cd wine-config-sidenet
$ ./setup

This script will configure your Wine instance. A $HOME/.wine directory will be created.

One done, you should be able to start some Windows application!