newbie just need help on Wine program

[jumbo000]

Hi, I'm a newbie. Just installed Redhat 8.0 and want to run some windows games on Linux using Wine.
I don't know much about linux.
I downloaded Wine RPM package and it said 'need Libsane.so.1' How can I find out which package contains Libsane.so.1 or Can I download this library file and install manually(If so, how?)

and also if someone please explain how you install software(that you download from the Internet) I know only how to install by RPM command. I downloaded Adobe tar.gz file, extracted it, run ./install.sh script, and now how can I know where the command file located? Does install script do everything for you or you have to compile,etc. it?

Thank you

[wapcaplet]

Check out rpmfind.net (http://rpmfind.net) to search for RPMs. It can be kind of hard to locate what RPMs contain a particular file you need (like libsane.so.1), in which case a google search for the specific file might turn up something useful.

Wine may already be included on your distribution CDs; if you install that one instead, it'll probably resolve all the dependencies for you. I would personally recommend installing Wine from source, instead though. Not too hard - the instructions on winehq.com are pretty easy to follow.

For the software that has an install.sh or similar script, I believe it usually installs everything for you (provided you run it as root). Each program is different, though; look at the documentation on their website to see if it tells you anything about where the software gets installed.

For RPM packages, if you're curious, there are some handy commands to get information about a package:

rpm -q --filesbypkg whateverpackage
(lists every file that is provided by the RPM)
rpm -q --requires whateverpackage
(tells you what this RPM requires)

Look at the rpm manpage for more goodies.