[Wine] Need help with a windows app

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 15:53:55 CDT 2012


On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Sanocon <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
>
> John Drescher wrote:
>>
>> > so how do i install the source code? (and i somewhat though it was more than just merging files,)
>> >
>>
>> I recommend you lookup how to get updated packages from your distro
>> before trying to compile wine from source. However here are the build
>> instructions:
>>
>> http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#compile_wine
>>
>> John
>
>
> well whats odd is the distro i have Ubuntu only gives 1.3. so what do i need to do to fix this?
>
Which version of Ubuntu are you using?  Some of the PPAs are reporting
Wine 1.3 but are installing Wine 1.4.  Can you run the following
command from terminal:

[code]
wine -version
[/code]
and report what is returned?

James



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