[Wine] Which Wine Download?

[Zac Brown]

Island wrote:
> Zac, thanks for your guidance.  I tried a couple of times to compile & install on Debian Etch.  I tried (more or less) following Dan Kegel's 'dapper script', and your PCLinuxOS script, reaching 'Permission denied' using either approach.  I also tried following the instructions in the 'readme' file in rc5, and hit the same result.
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> Just after you posted your suggestions, rc5 was released and so I decided to try to follow your advice, but with the rc5 release.  Downloaded the rc5.bz2 to a drive with plenty of room, /mnt/hda3, unpacked it into '/wine-1.0.rc5' (I used this as a sub for the 'cur_wine' value in your script).  I commented out some of your script, and adapted the second part, starting at the 'cd cur_wine' line, and saved it as 'islandwinebuild'.  Here's the output:
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> island at islandinthesun:/mnt/hda3$ sh islandwinebuild.sh
> islandwinebuild.sh: ./configure: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> make: *** No rule to make target `depend'.  Stop.
> make: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
> Done installing, wine is now located in ${INSTALL_PATH}.
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> The permissions on all the directories and files on /mnt/hda3 are rwx,rwx,rwx, fully recursively, though I notice that the non-executable files like text docs are only rw-,rw-,rw-.  I used KDE's Konqueror to set these permissions, so perhaps it decides whether some things are executable or not.
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> Eager for a really difficult time, I looked at the readme in rc5!  Very easy read, in fact, and makes compiling sound simple.  So gave it a try.  It advises running ./tools/wineinstall,  Here's the output:
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> island at islandinthesun:/mnt/hda3$ cd wine-1.0-rc5
> island at islandinthesun:/mnt/hda3/wine-1.0-rc5$ ./tools/wineinstall
> bash: ./tools/wineinstall: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Permission denied
> island at islandinthesun:/mnt/hda3/wine-1.0-rc5$
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> Having realised that the readme is not at all ferocious, I plucked up the courage to read further.  It says:
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> "Run programs as "wine program".  For more information and problem
> resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
> especially the wealth of information found at http://www.winehq.org."
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> I did read the rest of the file, but it didn't seem to help with the permission denied thing.  I wondered if the comment meant that, to avoid 'permission denied' problems, I had to log on as 'wine program' before I could run the ./tools/wineinstall or the ./configure lines etc in your script.  At the moment there is only 'root' and 'island' as users on this machine.
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> Nevertheless, I've learnt a lot, and certainly feel confident about having a another go at compiling.  Much thanks to you, though, because your script sets out the basic sequence we have to go through, and the readme adds useful details.
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> regards, Island
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Island,

Ah yes, the winebuild script included is good as well. I had forgotten about it 
as I don't typically use it. Either way I'm glad you learned something from it :).

-Zac