[lostwages] Update download-deb page with better information, error fixes

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Sat Feb 3 03:33:45 CST 2007


On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 00:06 -0700, Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Detlef Riekenberg wrote:
> > On Di, 2007-01-30 at 01:09 -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> >> +
> >> +<p>While there is currently no Wine package explicitly designed for
> >> the 64-bit version 
> >> +of Ubuntu, there are several hacks that can be used to install the
> >> 32-bit package
> >> +into the 64-bit distribution and have it function normally.  See 
> >> +<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/I386WineInAmd64">this page on the
> >> Ubuntu wiki</a> 
> >> +for more details.</p> 
> > 
> > IMHO, a link to our own Wiki should be placed on the download-deb page
> > 
> > http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit#head-56206e8bc74083807ffe06ccb471d3f964cb670a
> > 
> > 
> > And as a Note on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/I386WineInAmd64 and
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WineForAMD64
> > 
> > The provided automatic installation script includes the sidenet-script.
> > Please include a BIG WARNING, that this is never supported by winehq
> > and the users need a clean wine, before they ask for help on #winehq
> > or wine-users at winehq.org
> > 
> > 
> > You mention sidenet on that page:
> > "If you followed the manual instructions you need to install the Sidenet
> > script"
> > This is wrong. Please remove that line!
> > 
> > Even, when the sidenet-script might help some users to run an app,
> > "you need to install the Sidenet script" is wrong!
> 
> I still see that information listed on the mentioned page. I was hopping
> we could get some useful information for Ubuntu-64 users.
> I guess not. I will discourage anyone from referring to the above
> mentioned page because it has sedenet script as a "requirement". It's
> the same stuff as winetools and _brakes_ default Wine configuration.
> 
> 
> Vitaliy

I just fixed it to make it better.  I have half a mind to delete all
mention of sidenet from the page entirely.

I'll change the link to a page on our wiki with the same info and
resend.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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