[Wine] Re: Absolute noob needs help getting and useing the right bits

[vitamin]

Skellibert wrote:
> We are trialing UBUNTU on my son's computer ...
> We downloaded wine-1.1.28.tar.bz2 onto a usb drive and copied over,

You need ".deb" file instead. You really do not want to start from compiling Wine from source.

Also make sure to check all games you want to run in AppDB. Some might have few extra requirements.