How to install APT-GET or YUM or RPM or something similar on Linpus?

[rado84]

I've installed Oracle Linux. It works quite well. However, DosBox (which I used often) fails to run because I don't seem to be able to install SDL. I've planned to run my favorite Windows programs using WINE, however, I can't. Namely, the WINE's WOW64 (required to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit Linux) doesn't work on Oracle Linux, and there appears to be no workaround. Too bad, almost none of my favorite Windows apps (not even FlatAssembler) have 64-bit versions. I've therefore installed Oracle's VirtualBox. Most of my Windows apps work well in it, however one of my Windows apps doesn't run well with only 128 MB GRAM (which is the maximum VirtualBox supports, it's really... legacy). I guess I'll have to deal with that.

FlatAssember has a Linux version and I don't see a good reason for which you would wanna run the Windows version. The website says it supports x64, despite being an x86 app.
As for the other programs, if you try running them with Wine from the repos, most probably they won't run bc these versions of Wine are way too old. For instance, Wine in my Linux repo is version 1.6 but I use 4.0 and I'm eagerly waiting for the stable release of 4.5. This is the command with which to install the latest stable version of Wine in your system - currently that's version 4.0. IDK what that Oracle Linux is but if it's not a Debian derivative, you're gonna have to replace the correct words after "sudo" to match your distro. This command is for Debian-based distros:

Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get -y install wget && wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ xenial main' && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable -y

Also, if some of your favorite Windows apps are games, keep reading. If not, simply ignore these last few lines.

If for whatever reason they don't run with Wine, you can try by adding them in Steam from the menu "Games" on top of the Steam window. Then go to "Library", choose "Tools" and in the long list find a tool called "Proton 4.2-2" (or newer) and download it. When it finishes downloading, open Steam settings, go to "Steam Play" and click on the two checkboxes you're gonna see there. Finally, click on the drop-down menu and select "Proton 4.2-2". With this last setting you'll force this Proton version for all the games on Steam that don't have native Linux versions. If it's a Windows game, it will run with Proton 4.2-2. GTA 5 runs quite fine with Proton on Steam, altough with the CPU I have I'll have to wait a little longer for Proton updates cuz I don't get the same performance I used to get in Windows with the same CPU.