wine installation for Debian

David Goodenough david.goodenough at btconnect.com
Mon Jul 25 13:22:08 CDT 2005


Khe Siang Tan wrote:

> Hi
> 
> just wondering if someone could help me....i am
> running Debian operating system....and i am trying to
> install/run WINE.....i have typed the command $apt-get
> install wine in root user.
> 
> KHE:/home/zhe# apt-get install wine
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> wine is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not
> upgraded.
> 
> it seems to have installed but it has not appeared on
> my programs list....how do i get it running....
> 
> i have also tried this command:
> KHE:/home/zhe# dpkg -i wine_0.0.20030115-1.deb
> dpkg: error processing wine_0.0.20030115-1.deb
> (--install):
>  cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  wine_0.0.20030115-1.deb
> 
> how do i get WINE running
> 
> thx
> 
> 
> Cheers
> K-Si
> 
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If you have a Windows executable called t.exe in the current directory then 
you just open a console and type "wine t.exe".

If you also installed binfmt than you can also just run t.exe and it will 
use wine to run it.

David




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