Buiding my first Wine PC

[Andriy Palamarchuk]

--- Ruben Fanucchi <Ruben.Fanucchi at gmx.net> wrote:
> I'm sure this question is totally stupid, but as I
> have no experience with
> Wine and I am trying switch to Linux and abandon
> Microsoft forever, will help
> to make it no that silly.

This is not silly, the project exists in the first
place to help to answer this question ;-)

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> I would like to install MSWLOGO in the PC for my
> children. 
> 
> As I'm totally new to this stuff, I'm not sure which
> files I have to
> download. Do I have to dl the complete source
> distribution and the Binary for
> Linux-gnu or just one if it ? How do I install it
> correctly ? Is there a makefile
> needed to be configured or anything like this?. 

Check out this page:
http://www.winehq.com/download/

If you want just to use Wine, binary package is,
probably, more convenient.
Source distribution is not that much more difficult
and is better suited for developers.

> I have read the Wine documentation which looks OK
> but at the time of
> installing the compiler I can’t make install. 

I expect you read the README file in the source
installation, right?
The preferred and easiest method of installation is
running the wineinstall tool (see the README).
Report the problems here if it fails.

If you decided to compile it manually, did you call
"./configure" before calling "make install"?
What exactly error messages did you get with "make
install"?

> Then
> I’ve tried the Codewavers Wine
> setup, that was easy but when I try ti setup MSWLOGO
> the computer freezes on
> the blue setup screen. 

Again, report the details of the problem, version of
the Codeweavers Wine.

Be sure you uninistalled the previously installed
Wine.

In any bug report mention version of your operating
system.

Andriy Palamarchuk

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