WordLight Installation Guide

This is a guide on how to install WordLight on almost any Operating System

Windows

1. Download the installer from the official WordLight website
2. Open the executable file you just downloaded
   1. If a "Windows protected your PC" prompt appears, click on "More info" and then click "Run anyway"
   2. If a User Account Control prompt appears, click Yes
3. When the installer opens up, click the "Install" button and wait for WordLight to install
4. When it is done installing, click "Finish"

MacOS

1. Download Parallels Desktop from the official site
2. Follow the instructions in the installer to install Windows 11 on Parallels Desktop
3. Once you're in Windows 11, follow the installation guide for Windows above

Linux

Since there are so many Linux Distributions, I only cover the base ones.

Ubuntu & Debian

1. Install Wine
   1. Refresh the repositories with this command:

   sudo apt update

   2. Install Wine with this command:

   sudo apt install wine64

2. Install the Segoe UI font
   1. Install git if you don't have it

   sudo apt install git

   2. Clone a Segoe UI font repository

   git clone https://github.com/mrbvrz/segoe-ui-linux

   3. Get into the directory of the newly cloned repository

   cd segoe-ui-linux

   4. Change the permissions to be able to execute the install script

   chmod +x install.sh

   5. Run the install script

   sudo ./install.sh

3. Download and install WordLight
   1. Download the installer from the official WordLight website
   2. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the installer and run this command:

   wine64 WordLightSetup.exe

   3. Follow the instructions 3-4 in the Windows installation guide

Fedora

1. Install Wine
   1. Refresh the repositories with this command:

   sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

   2. Install Wine with this command:

   sudo dnf install wine

2. Install the Segoe UI font
   1. Install yay
      1. Download the font file from here
      2. Make a TrueType Font folder

      mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf

      3. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the font and copy the font to the ttf directory with this command:

      cp segoeui.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf

      4. Update the font cache

      fc-cache -v

3. Download and install WordLight
   1. Download the installer from the official WordLight website
   2. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the installer and run this command:

   wine64 WordLightSetup.exe

   3. Follow the instructions 3-4 in the Windows installation guide

openSUSE

1. Install Wine
   1. Add the wine repository:
      1. Download the repository key

      wget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/repodata/repomd.xml.key 

      2. Install the key

      sudo rpm --import repomd.xml.key

      3. Add the repository

      sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/Emulators:Wine.repo

      4. Update the package database

      sudo zypper refresh

   2. Install Wine with this command:

   sudo zypper install wine

2. Install the Segoe UI font
   1. Install yay
      1. Download the font file from here
      2. Make a TrueType Font folder

      mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf

      3. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the font and copy the font to the ttf directory with this command:

      cp segoeui.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf

      4. Update the font cache

      fc-cache -v

3. Download and install WordLight
   1. Download the installer from the official WordLight website
   2. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the installer and run this command:

   wine64 WordLightSetup.exe

   3. Follow the instructions 3-4 in the Windows installation guide

Arch Linux

1. Install Wine
   1. Enable the multilib repository
      1. Install nano

      sudo pacman -S nano

      2. Open the pacman config file

      sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

      3. Find where it says:

      # [multilib]
      # Include /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
      

      4. Uncomment those lines by removing the # symbols, should look like this:

      [multilib]
      Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
      

   2. Refresh the repositories with this command:

   sudo pacman -Sy

   3. Install Wine with this command:

   sudo pacman -S wine

2. Install the Segoe UI font
   1. Install yay
      1. Install the basic tools and git

      sudo pacman -S --needed base-devel git

      2. Clone the yay repository

      git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/yay.git

      3. Get into the directory of the newly cloned repository

      cd yay

      4. Build the package

      makepkg -si

   2. Use yay to install the default Windows 11 fonts (including Segoe UI)

   yay -S ttf-ms-win11-auto --noconfirm

3. Download and install WordLight
   1. Download the installer from the official WordLight website
   2. Open a terminal in the directory where you downloaded the installer and run this command:

   wine64 WordLightSetup.exe

   3. Follow the instructions 3-4 in the Windows installation guide