[Wine] How to install Wine-1.1.7 on Ubuntu 7.10

[David Griffith]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Justterrible wrote:

> That would re-download the package I've already got.
> Is there no way to install a package/app/source/ without the package manager?
>
> There is no documentation or how to I can find on installing this apart from the Readme file in the root dir of the wine 1.17 folder.
> Wineinstall doesn't seem to work.
> I'm reluctant to try the alternative due to my inexperience.
>
> Any other help? Or should I just re-download it?

I suspect you downloaded the source.  By default apt-get downloads a
compiled package.  Just let apt-get do its work.

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David Griffith
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