Few of us like to play standalone flash based games or some of us have to view flash based programs bundled either from some CD distributor or with a Magazine CD. Some of them run very well in vanilla installation of WINE but few of them need other Windows components and cannot run well under WINE in Linux.

However now running Flash based programs in Linux using WINE is a child’s play. You can play any flash based game or flash based interface in WINE by following the subsequent steps:

• Install WINE.
• Download ies4linux from this site and install ies4linux.
• Press Alt + F2 and type ~/.ies4linux/ie6 and press enter.
• At the same time press Alt+F2 and type ~/.wine
• Now copy all the contents from the former folder to latter folder. And when prompted for overwriting, choose Replace All.
• Now go to terminal and type:

wine <flash-program>.exe

You can also drag and drop the program from file manager to the terminal and precede it by wine command. In Ubuntu at least, you can run WINE Windows programs by double clicking it.

Your flash program should run now.