I've downloaded Wine 1.1.7 and unzipped it onto my desktop. I've printed out the readme file and have followed the quick start by running ./tools/wineinstall (I'm doing all this by mouseclicks - no terminal). A dialog box flashes and then nothing happens. I can't stop this dialog box long enough to see if there is an error msg, so I don't know what is happening, except I can't seem to install the app. Any help would be appreciated.
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008, Justterrible wrote:> I've downloaded Wine 1.1.7 and unzipped it onto my desktop. > I've printed out the readme file and have followed the quick start by running ./tools/wineinstall (I'm doing all this by mouseclicks - no terminal). > A dialog box flashes and then nothing happens. > I can't stop this dialog box long enough to see if there is an error msg, so I don't know what is happening, except I can't seem to install the app. > Any help would be appreciated.Do you really want to compile it yourself? Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list: # Wine deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt gutsy main deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt gutsy main Then do "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install wine" -- David Griffith dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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? Thanks
Thanks so far. I tried to paste the deb links you provided into sources list, but I don't have permissions to save the altered file. Ubuntu told me I can't change the permissions (via the permissions tab on sources.list). How do I do that? Thanks
Must have a syntax error. I get: Code: peter at peter-desktop:/etc/apt$ sudo edit sources.list Warning: unknown mime-type for "sources.list" -- using "application/*" So how do I tell it to use application 'sources.list' or whatever it needs to edit it? Thanks
Justterrible wrote:> I think I'll move away from Ubuntu altogether and try and find a more compatible linux. There are hundreds of flavours out there. I need a distro where I can compile source code as well as install ready to go packages. >OpenSUSE provides a daily Wine snapshot package in addition to the biweekly release packages, so if you want the latest git, you don't even have to compile it yourself. Their biweekly release package includes winetricks (don't know about the daily). They do this for all versions of openSUSE for which they still maintain repositories (currently goes back to 10.2), not just the newest one (currently 11.0). I've been using Wine on it for over a year, and have never had a single problem with either their packages or compiling Wine from git.
Why give up on Ubuntu, just about the best distro available? Upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). Besides getting the latest and greatest version, you are getting one of the most user friendly Linuxes (Lini?) out there. And ... it includes wine as one of the packages you can install ... easily. Better than that, take it a step further and install Ultimate Edition 2.0 ... an upgrade to "plain vanilla" Ubuntu and undoubtedly the best of the best ... with lots of extras included ... all put together by a fellow by the screen-name of TheeMahn ...