[1/2] [website] Add up-to-date download page for Debian (try 2)

Kyle Auble kyle.auble at zoho.com
Sun Sep 20 21:24:13 CDT 2015


I incorporated all of Jens' suggestions, plus tweaked the language to
sound better in a few places and gave the HTML more space to breathe.
The 2nd patch in the series should still be fine without any changes.

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+<!--TITLE:[Installing the latest Wine on Debian]-->
+<!--BLURB:[Installing the latest Wine on Debian]-->
+
+
+<h1 class="title">
+<a href="https://www.debian.org/" target="_new">
+<img src="{$root}/images/distro/debian.png" width="50" height="50"
+  alt="Debian Logo" border="0"></a>
+Wine on Debian
+<a href="https://www.debian.org/" target="_new">
+<img src="{$root}/images/distro/debian.png" width="50" height="50"
+  alt="Debian Logo" border="0"></a>
+</h1>
+
+<p>
+You can directly install software for Debian from <i>.deb</i> package
+files, but using the APT package manager (or a front-end such as
+Aptitude or Synaptic) to get software from the official Debian repos is
+much safer and cleaner. Here are instructions and hints for installing
+your preferred version of Wine, the Debian way....
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>For 32-Bit Debian</h2>
+
+<p>
+So long as your package system is configured correctly and
+up-to-date, grabbing Wine should be simple, whether you use Debian
+<i>stable</i>, <i>testing</i>, or <i>unstable</i>. On <b>32-bit</b>
+Debian, you can install a stable release of Wine with a single
+<i>apt-get</i> command:
+</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install wine</pre>
+
+<p>
+Starting with Debian Jessie (release 8.0), there is also a package of
+Wine's development release that can be installed alongside the stable
+release:
+</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install wine-development</pre>
+
+<p>
+Note that you currently need to use the command
+'<b>wine-development</b>' instead of '<b>wine</b>' to run the
+development version from the command-line.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+You should be able to closely track upstream with the
+"wine-development" package. While the version on <i>stable</i> will only
+upgrade with each major Debian release, current packages for users on
+<i>stable</i> will be regularly available from
+<a href="http://backports.debian.org/"
+  target="_new">Debian Backports</a> (see below for details).
+
+Similarly, the packages in <i>testing</i> and <i>unstable</i> won't be
+updated while Debian is in its biennial code-freeze. Advanced users that
+<i>really</i> need a packaged, cutting-edge version of Wine during those
+months can still find it in
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental"
+  target="_new">Debian <i>experimental</i></a>.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>On 64-Bit Debian</h2>
+
+<p>
+Even if your system uses <b>64-bit</b> Debian, you probably still
+want a Wine installation that can run 32-bit Windows applications. To
+install 32-bit application support, just make sure your system is
+configured to pull in 32-bit packages and the index is updated
+first:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install wine-development
+</pre>
+
+<p>Starting with Debian Stretch, you can also install Wine on 64-bit ARM
+systems:</p>
+
+<pre>
+sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install wine-development
+</pre>
+
+
+<h2>Debian Backports</h2>
+
+<p>
+If you are on <i>stable</i> and want a newer version of
+"wine-development", starting with Debian Jessie, you can grab a version
+in sync with upstream from Debian Backports. To install it, you need to
+enable the Backports repo first by adding the following line to one of
+your <i>sources.list</i> files:
+</p>
+
+<pre>
+deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+You can do this either through Synaptic
+  (<b>Settings -> Repositories -> Other Software -> Add</b>)
+or by editing the <i>sources.list</i> file directly
+  ('<b>sudo editor /etc/apt/sources.list</b>').
+Then once you've added your sources, update your package index
+  (<b>Reload</b> in Synaptic or '<b>sudo apt-get update</b>' on the
+  command-line).
+</p>
+
+<p>
+If you don't mind possibly upgrading other dependencies to Backports
+versions too, you can install everything from the command-line in one
+swoop:
+</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports wine-development</pre>
+
+<p>If you want to be more selective about keeping <i>stable</i>
+dependencies though, you can use the form:</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install wine-development/jessie-backports</pre>
+
+<p>
+However, if any other packages need to be installed or updated, this
+method will abort with a list of such packages. You can selectively
+install those from either <i>stable</i> or Backports, then repeat the
+command to install "wine-development/jessie-backports".
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>More Information</h2>
+
+<p>For more info, you can see the Debian package site:</p>
+
+<ul><li>
+<a href="https://packages.debian.org/wine"
+  target="_new">wine</a> (stable release)
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<a href="https://packages.debian.org/wine-development"
+  target="_new">wine-development</a> (development release)
+</li></ul>
+
+<p>There are also useful wiki pages out there too:</p>
+
+<ul><li>
+<a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/Debian"
+  target="_new">Debian on the Wine Wiki</a>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Wine"
+  target="_new">Wine on the Debian Wiki</a>
+</li></ul>
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