In the past, installing Wine to a portable distribution could be a lengthy struggle, fraught with peril, frustration, and chroots. But that gloomy age is gone now! Thanks to the widespread and mature live-system machinery developed by many distros, it shouldn't be hard to have your own portable installation of Wine.
How To Install Wine On Mac Os X 7Installing the Base Distro
How to Download Wine on a Mac. RELATED: 5 Ways to Run Windows Software on a Mac There are several ways to get Wine on a Mac. The official project website at WineHQ now provides official builds of Wine for Mac OS X. To install Wine on your Mac, you will need the following: macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) or above (but 10.15 Catalina is not recommended) Access to an Admin account, with password. Drag and drop both Wine and WineBottler applications to your Applications folder to install them, just like you would any other Mac application. You can then launch WineBottler from your Applications folder. Step #1 – Install MacPorts. Go to the MacPorts website. Look under “Installing MacPorts” in the “Getting Started” section. Choose the appropriate version. For this tutorial I’m using Mountain Lion. Double click the.dmg file and run through the installation.
The main thing you'll need is a properly formatted (FAT32) USB flash drive. To be sure you also have enough space, you'll probably want...
The next ingredient is the ISO image of whatever distro you want to run Wine on. If you don't have one in mind, two well-known Linux distros that historically focused on portability are KNOPPIX and Puppy, but most major distros including Fedora and Ubuntu now offer live-USB versions.
Another distro you might find interesting is Zorin OS, which tries to make Linux as familiar to Windows users as possible and consequently includes a version of Wine right out of the box.
You can always just go to your preferred distro's website and download an ISO image, but another option definitely worth considering is the UNetbootin tool. Not only can this create your live-USB install from a pre-downloaded ISO, or download the ISO itself, but it makes configuring other settings for your live-USB simple, and can be used entirely from within Windows.
Mac computers have a picky boot-loader and will not accept the file structure typically used on live-USBs. As a result, even though UNetbootin runs on Mac OS X, it can't create a live-USB image bootable on OS X.
This doesn't mean you can't create a portable installation for running on Macs; the tool Mac Linux USB Loader supposedly can, but we haven't tested this software before. If that doesn't work, you may just need to follow special instructions for manually creating your live-USB (Ubuntu's live-USB for OS X instructions are a good example)
Whether you choose a live-USB creator or to follow your distro's specific instructions manually, just be sure to enable persistence when you install the distro to your USB. This setting will allow your live-USB to record any changes to settings and files when you log off, which is exactly what you need to install Wine and your programs to the drive.
Installing Wine and Programs
Once you have a persistent live-USB ready and working, installing Wine itself shouldn't be too hard at all. If you're ok with the version packaged by the distro itself, you should be able to install Wine through the package manager. We also package recent development and staging versions of Wine for a few distros; you can find out more at our Downloads page.
If you want the cutting-edge, as long as your USB drive and host computer's RAM have enough space, downloading Wine from Git and Building Wine from source should also work essentially the same.
Just don't forget to always reboot or shutdown, then unplug your live-USB properly so that data isn't corrupted.
Other Possible Ideas
This section is for noting other approaches that have definite disadvantages, but may actually be useful for some users. If you do come across a situation where one of these methods is preferable, feel free to move its entry to a new section with detailed instructions.
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