wine installation for Debian

Christian Britz cbritz at gmx.net
Mon Jul 25 11:34:29 CDT 2005


Hi K-Si,

Khe Siang Tan schrieb:

> KHE:/home/zhe# apt-get install wine
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> wine is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.

You could try apt-get install --reinstall wine

> 
> it seems to have installed but it has not appeared on
> my programs list....how do i get it running....

Perhaps it is just not listed in the menu. Did you try to start it on
the command line? It is probably located in /usr/bin/wine

> i have also tried this command:
> KHE:/home/zhe# dpkg -i wine_0.0.20030115-1.deb

You seem to try to install a very old version of wine.

> dpkg: error processing wine_0.0.20030115-1.deb
> (--install):
>  cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  wine_0.0.20030115-1.deb

Exists this deb file in /home/zhe/ ?

> how do i get WINE running

The best way: Build it from source (or grab a current binary) from
http://www.winehq.org/site/download! :-)

Building and installing from source is easy: just unpack the downloaded
file (tar -xvzf Wine-YYYYMMDD.tar.gz) somewhere, cd there, run as a
normal user "tools/wineinstaller" from there. At some point it will ask
you for your root password. If you ever want to uninstall it, go to that
directory and type (this time as user root) "make uninstall".

Regards,
Christian Britz



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