nextnano.NEGF can be executed on Linux using the Wine compatibility layer. See below for the installation intstructions for several Linux distrubutions.
After having downloaded the nextnano.NEGF zip file from https://www.nextnano.com/nextnano3/restricted/download/update/nextnano.NEGF.zip, please extract it to your preferred path. Having access to the material database Material_Database.xml and the license file License_nnQCL.lic, one can run an input file as follows:
wine /your_directory/nextnano.NEGF.exe /your_directory/your_input_file.xml /your_directory/Material_Database.xml /your_directory/License_nnQCL.lic
On Ubuntu 20.10, following commands will install the stable branch of Wine:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key sudo apt-key add winehq.key sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ groovy main' sudo apt update sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
On Ubuntu 18.04, following commands are instead used:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 wget -nc https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key sudo apt-key add winehq.key sudo apt-add-repository 'deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/xUbuntu_18.04/ ./' sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys DFA175A75104960E sudo apt update sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
On Debian 10, following commands will install Wine:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 sudo apt update sudo apt -y install gnupg2 software-properties-common wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add - sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ wget -O- -q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_10/Release.key | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine:/Debian/Debian_10 ./" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/wine-obs.list sudo apt update sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
We have successfully installed Wine 5 on RHEL 8 using the following commands:
(These build Wine from source, hence the installation takes considerably longer.)
sudo -i dnf clean all dnf update dnf groupinstall 'Development Tools' dnf install libX11-devel freetype-devel zlib-devel libxcb-devel libxslt-devel libgcrypt-devel libxml2-devel gnutls-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel libtiff-devel gstreamer1-devel dbus-devel fontconfig-devel cd /opt wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/5.0/wine-5.0.tar.xz tar -Jxf wine-5.0.tar.xz cd wine-5.0 ##For 32-Bit Systems: ./configure ##For 64-Bit Systems: ./configure --enable-win64 make make install
After installing Wine, if you encounter errors about Mono, a useful trick is to delete the folder .Wine and force Wine to download and install Gecko and Mono automatically. Normally, Wine will suggest installing these the first time it is used. Furthermore, opening the wine uninstaller
and removing interfering applications might solve some problems. In the end, we are able to use Wine without installing Winetricks or dotnet manually. If you are working on a remote machine, you might need to enable X11 forwarding to see the windows created during the Wine configuration. This is done by connecting via ssh -X and modifying the ssh.config file under etc/ssh accordingly. On RHEL/CentOS 8 some dependencies might need to be installed by the following command:
# dnf install xorg-x11-server-Xorg xorg-x11-xauth xorg-x11-apps -y