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wineboot(1)

wineboot1

Perform wine initialization, startup, and shutdown tasks

Usage

wineboot [options]

Overview

wineboot performs the initial creation and setup of a WINEPREFIX for wine(1). It can also perform a simulated reboot or shutdown to any applications running within the WINEPREFIX.

Options

-h, --help

Display help message.

-e, --end-session

End the current session cleanly.

-f, --force

Force exit for processes that don't exit cleanly

-i, --init

Initialize the WINEPREFIX.

-k, --kill

Kill running processes without any cleanup.

-r, --restart

Restart only, don't do normal startup operations.

-s, --shutdown

Shutdown only, don't reboot.

-u, --update

Update the WINEPREFIX.

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 8 (Jessie)
  • Debian 7 (Wheezy)

--kill since Debian 8 (Jessie); -k since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Bugs

Bugs can be reported on the Wine bug tracker ⟨https://bugs.winehq.org⟩.

Availability

wineboot is part of the Wine distribution, which is available through WineHQ, the Wine development headquarters ⟨https://www.winehq.org/⟩.

From wine 11.21-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by wine-staging. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.