[Bug 33549] Wine does not install correctly on Mint 13 MATE

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33549

André Pirard <A.Pirard at ulg.ac.be> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
                 CC|                            |A.Pirard at ulg.ac.be
         Resolution|INVALID                     |

--- Comment #3 from André Pirard <A.Pirard at ulg.ac.be> 2013-05-10 19:09:01 CDT ---
"the problem of your distribution" is unclear, especially to the general user.
Mint users use Wine distribution, Mint distribution, Ubuntu distribution,
Debian distribution, MATE distribution, Cinnamon distribution and I think that
Ubuntu users using MATE meet the second problem too.
It's usually the job of each software, not system, provider to explain how to
install their product.

For the sake of Wine, you should state that Linux Mint users have to use the
APT configuration
URI:  http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu
Distribution: <ubuntu>
Components: maint
or the source.list file line
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ppa/ubuntu <ubuntu> main
where <ubuntu> is the corresponding distribution, for example "precise" for
"maya".
They're supposed to know the correspondences but it's useful to refer to
http://www.linuxmint.com/oldreleases.php

Regarding the second problem, I did not analyze it.
I'll just say that I've just had to replace "OnlyShowIn=GNOME;" with
"OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;MATE;" in a shortcut for a component program not to
block much of the system. Hence, that the problem may occur because of the
addition of a Desktop layer to any system.

I'm explaining this for the sake of Wine.  If no one cares, I won't fight to
death for it.
I agree that Linux is a dish of spaghetti and I always claim that it's not the
best way to succeed.
But I didn't choose that. Nor to emulate Windows on Linux instead of Linux on
Windows ;-)
I just admire your doing it and I support you.

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