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# Installation

At least in KDE Plasma all you really need is to have the `.exe` files associated with `wine`. _Right click > Open with_ in Dolphin will do the trick.

Once you got that covered, the installer can be run by just doubleclicking the exe, just like in windows. It will be installed to your default wine prefix (which might not be what you want. One prefix per program would be a more principled approach.)

[Wine will also map windows desktop entries to freedesktop `.desktop` files.](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wine#Desktop_launcher_menus) Your desktop environment should pick these up.

**Tldr:** Given a working wine and desktop environment, _it should just work._


# Updaters

I don't think that wine will install any daemons to your linux. I guess you could manually create e.g. a systemd service to run an updater with wine, but I would recommend against it. Many windows programs will anyway check for updates on launch and nag you about an outdated version.

Or just sign up to a release mailing list.