# How to manually run wine not installed via Nix?

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-manually-run-wine-not-installed-via-nix/80128
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**Created:** [September 17, 2026, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-manually-run-wine-not-installed-via-nix/80128 "2026-09-17T15:21:35Z")
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### Author: ![ibizaman](https://discourse.nixos.org/user_avatar/discourse.nixos.org/ibizaman/32/6154_2.png) [@ibizaman](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/ibizaman)
#### Post date: [September 18, 2026, 2:37am UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/how-to-manually-run-wine-not-installed-via-nix/80128/4 "2026-09-18T02:37:49Z")

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It’s not as straightforward as the previous’ post answer but I just stumbled into that recently and wrote a post about it you might get some ideas from [Using buildFHSEnv for dynamically linked libraries with esphome as example](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/using-buildfhsenv-for-dynamically-linked-libraries-with-esphome-as-example/79990)

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