These packages are not strictly required as Wine will download the relevant files as needed. See also #Graphics drivers and #Sound for additional requirements.Ĭonsider installing wine-gecko and wine-mono for applications that depend on Internet Explorer and. Wine Staging is a patched version of Wine, which contains bug fixes and features that have not been integrated into the stable or development branch yet. Wine can be installed by enabling the multilib repository and installing the wine (development), wine-stable AUR (stable) or wine-staging (testing) package.
Wine can also run Malware (see Wine FAQ on Malware compatibility).See #Running Wine under a separate user account and Security#Sandboxing applications for possible precautions.
If you can access a file or resource with your user account, programs running in Wine can too.