this is obsolete doc -- see http://doc.nethence.com/ instead

Configuring Centos 6 for Wine 

Installing and configuring the base system 

Install the system (eventually press TAB and add 'text' to the line...) 

Get access to the network, connect with your favorite ssh client and proceed, 

yum install system-config-network-tui -y

system-config-network-tui

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (ONBOOT=yes)

yum install screen wget mlocate -y

yum install xterm -y

yum install twm -y

yum groupinstall "X Window System" -y

yum groupinstall "Development tools" -y

#yum groupinstall "Additional Development" -y

Configure X, 

cd /etc/X11/

X -configure

mv /root/xorg.conf.new .

cp xorg.conf.new xorg.conf

Note. if you're running this system as guest you'll have to install the 'tools' or 'guest additions' first. 

Note. on virtualbox you should either restart the hal daemon or restart the system to get the mouse and the keyboard working with X. 

Add some user to use X, 

useradd -g users -m USERNAME

passwd USERNAME

Login as user and start X, 

startx

Ok at this point you should have TWM running. 

Requirements 

You'll need the EPEL repository for both, Qvwm's dependencies and to install Wine, 

wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm

Installing and configuring Qvwm 

Install dependencies for Qvwm (provided by EPEL), 

yum install imlib-devel -y

yum install libXScrnSaver-devel -y

yum install esound-devel esound-libs esound-tools -y

#yum groupinstall "Legacy X Window System compatibility"

Fix some shared object files for Qvwm to start, 

cd /usr/lib/

ln -s libImlib.so.11.0.0 libImlib.so.1

Fetch and compile Qvwm, 

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/qvwm/qvwm-base-30042007.tar.gz

tar xzf qvwm-base-30042007.tar.gz

cd qvwm/source/qvwm/

./configure

make

make install

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/qvwm/qvwm-utils-30042007.tar.gz

tar xzf qvwm-utils-30042007.tar.gz

cd qvwm-utils/

cd qvwm-background/

ln -sf /usr/share/automake-1.11/install-sh

ln -sf /usr/share/automake-1.11/depcomp

ln -sf /usr/share/automake-1.11/missing

./configure

make

make install

#wget http://www.csg.is.titech.ac.jp/~kourai/qvwm/archive/qvwm/qvwm-1.1.12.tar.gz

#tar xzf qvwm-1.1.12.tar.gz

#cd qvwm-1.1.12/

cat > .xinitrc <<EOF9 

#!/bin/sh 

exec qvwm 

EOF9 

Installing and configuring Wine 

Install Wine (provided by EPEL), 

yum install wine wine-openal

Prepare for wine-geko installation, 

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine_gecko-1.5-x86.msi

mkdir -p /usr/share/wine/gecko

mv wine_gecko-1.5-x86.msi /usr/share/wine/gecko/

Install Winetricks, 

yum install cabextract

wget http://winetricks.org/winetricks

chmod +x winetricks

sh winetricks corefonts vcrun6

Additional notes 

If you need UnRAR, 

wget http://rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-4.1.1.tar.gz

tar xzf rarlinux-4.1.1.tar.gz

cd rar/

make install

Note. to use it (eventually as user), 

#unrar x archive.rar

References 

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=777759 

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=15679 

http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko 

http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricks