How to use WINE in Kali linux

What’s Wine?

Initially, the name Wine was an acronym for WINdows Emulator. But now, Wine Is Not an Emulator: it is a compatibility layer, an interface that allows to run Windows binaries on a host system. To do this, Wine implements the Windows application binary interface in the user space, rather than as a kernel module. A daemon known as wineserver provides the services normally provided by Windows kernel.

The security in Wine is good enough, because applications running in Wine are confined to the current user’s privileges. For this, is a good choice to not run Wine with the superuser‘s account, because of its unlimited privileges! However, it is too difficult that a virus written for Windows damages our system.

Download And Install Wine

Ok, it’s time to install Wine. In your terminal type:

root@Anonymous:~# wine

A window with some information appears.

This window tells you to enable Multi-Arch. 

Now you will use following commands to enable Multi-Arch as well as install Wine, just type in your terminal:

# dpkg --add-architecture i386 
# apt-get update 
# apt-get install wine-bin:i386 

After the installation, in Applications \ System Tools you can find Wine configuration, to change settings of Wine, and Wine Uninstaller, to uninstall Wine, obviously.

To run your Windows executable file, for example the useful Windows Calculator, type in your terminal:

root@Anonymous:~# wine calc.exe

Now you can enjoy your Windows applications on your favorite distro!