WINE (Windows Programs On Mac)

Hey guys, this is Mad Kids, and one today's I'm making a video on something called Wine. Um, so Wine allows you to run and install Windows programs on your Intel-based Mac. So this doesn't work on PowerPCs, unfortunately, but it does work on Intel. So most of you I think use Intel, so hopefully this will benefit most of you.

So in this video, hopefully it'll only be a few minutes, I'm going to show you how to install something called MacPorts and use it to install something called Wine on your Mac. So I had another video on installing Think on the Mac. MacPorts is something similar to Think; it lets you install a bunch of Unix programs on your Mac. Um, so, um, let's just get right started.

There are a bunch of requirements, actually, in order to um, install Think or install Wine. The first one, and I have a little list right here, is you need an Intel Mac, so you can't have a PowerPC. The second one is you need to have an admin account username and password. You need to have Xcode installed, and I will have a link in the description to a video on how to install Xcode if you don't already have Xcode.

Um, you need X11, which comes with most Intel-based Macs, if not all. So as long as you have um, Leopard, it should be okay. If you have Tiger, then um, you can't do this unfortunately, and it'll take about an hour, so I obviously will have to do a bunch of cuts.

Um, so first of all, like I said before, you have to have something called MacPorts installed. So here's my screen, and I found this great site that explains it pretty well. So I have a link for this in the description if I don't explain it to you well. But anyway, let's get back to business.

You have to go to a website to install MacPorts, so I'll just have that link in the description as well. It's MacPorts.org/slin.php. So now you're going to download the Leopard Universal right there. Here it is, and it'll install and download a DMG disk image. I'll open it up and mount it.

Okay, so now you want to open up MacPorts.pkg, and it'll take you through a very simple to follow um, setup process. So this is like practically any other installer. MacPorts, it doesn't install AppGet like Think does; it installs, once you've manually installed some stuff, it installs a command called Port which lets you install ported programs. And there is a version of Aircrack-ng for this too, but that's terribly hard to use.

So, it's installing. The installer script tends to take a long time to run, so I'll do a cut here. Okay, there we go, so it finished. I click close. So now we have to run a few terminal commands to fully install it. So I'll open up my terminal application.

So, these are commands that you're going to need the root password for, unfortunately. So I'm going to paste the command in and hit enter. I'll have the command in the description of the video. Okay, so I'll hit enter, and now it's going to ask me for my password. So if it goes right, then this should be the output of the terminal.

So now that that's worked, um, I'm going to close terminal because MacPorts is installed. And to know that you type Port, and since this is a now it's a command, it means MacPorts has been installed, and MacPorts is cool to have anyway. So, um, I'm glad that you guys now have that.

So now it's really easy to install it. So we actually want to open Terminal back up. Once you've installed MacPorts, it's super easy to install Wine. You do sudo port install wine (no caps). Now it's going to install Wine, and it might take a while.

And by the way, if you get an error message that says "C compiler cannot create executables," it's normally because um, you don't have Xcode installed properly, or it's not installed on, um, configuring it. Okay, it's building it. So this is where you get that error that says um, cannot compile. It's actually installing a bunch of stuff that's um, required for Wine to properly work—a bunch of Linux-y stuff.

And now it's actually installing something called ncurses, um, which gives you a bunch of terminal options for your programs. So now it's configuring. Okay, so it's finally downloaded Wine itself and it's u...