[Wine] Re: documentation for beginners ?`

[David Rowell]

In order to have Synaptic "automagically" update Ubuntu 6.06 LTS version 
of Wine you will have to edit the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' to 
include a different repository.  If I recall correctly this is how its 
done - correct me if I'm wrong folks!

First make a backup copy of the file - just in case.
Then edit the file:  [sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list]
   1 - put a # in the first character of any lines referencing wine to 
"comment them out" [you may not have any]
   2 - add the following 2 lines to the end of the file [copy & paste 
works fine] and save it
      deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
      deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main

Start Synaptic and click Reload.  Then make a search for wine.  Select 
and update wine & libwine.  I'd suggest also installing wine-dev & 
libwine-dev which may well be needed by some programs.

I also second Danile's suggestion of becoming friendly with the o/l 
documentation.  My repository suggestion is in the site there somewhere.

Dave Rowell

richard noel fell wrote:
> Daniel -
> Following your suggestion, I removed the config file and started afresh 
> and all seems to work as expected. I am using wine 0.9.9 and installed 
> via synaptic.
> More question to come,
> Dick
> 
> Daniel Skorka wrote:
>> richard noel fell <fell at brandeis.edu> wrote:
>>  
>>> Is there any documentation that instructs a beginner how to configure 
>>> (and the logic behind) wine and the steps necessary to install 
>>> windows software? I have the user's guide but it does lack much, 
>>> particularly what is going on.
>>>     
>>
>> "User's guide" as in http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index ?
>>
>>  
>>> I am using ubuntu 6.06 and have presumably installed wine correctly.     
>>
>> What wine version and how did you install it?
>>
>>  
>>> However, I cannot configure the system. A typical error message is, 
>>> upon invoking winecfg, is:
>>> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not 
>>> accessible.
>>> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is 
>>> not accessible.
>>>     
>>
>> In a correct, fresh install of wine, this does not happen. Try
>> 'rm -fr ~/.wine'
>>
>> If that doesn't help, there is something wrong with your wine
>> installation.
>>
>> Daniel
>>