Wine installation

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  • /etc/sysctl.conf:
# The Slackware default value is 98304; decreased here to avoid wine's warning
# The value 65536 is suggested by the config help for
# SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR
vm.mmap_min_addr=65536
  • On headless server run Xvfb.

/etc/rc.d/rc.local:

# Start Xvfb
if [ -x /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb ]; then
  echo "Starting Xvfb"
  /usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb :99 -screen 0 640x480x8 -nolisten tcp -noreset -auth /etc/Xvfb99.cfg -fbdir /tmp > /dev/null 2>&1 &
fi

/etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown:

# Shut down Xvfb
killall Xvfb
  1. (1) prevent Wine from changing the filetype associations and
  2. adding menu entries and desktop links
  3. (2) disable mono
  4. (3) disable gecko

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="winemenubuilder.exe,mscoree,mshtml=d"