[Wine] Re: Playonlinux and Office 2007

[dE_logics]

vitamin wrote:
> 
> dE_logics wrote:
> > Without Gentoo, that's the hardest thing to do (specially in debian, it asks for 32 bit jpeg libraries ... and many more stuff).
> 
> Well yeah, Wine is a 32-bit app (if you intend to run 32-bit windows programs). And you need those libraries anyway.
> 
> And if you having difficulties with your distro compiling Wine, refer to your distro support with help installing all the required pieces.
> 
> 
> dE_logics wrote:
> > + I have to update it manually every time.. it will bypass the package manager.
> 
> If you don't install self-compiled Wine and run it directly from the source/compile dir then you won't have any conflicts with packaged Wine.


The Debian community is equally hopeless on this.