Wine & Etch

[karyoker]

Can anybody give this newbie a simple procedure to install wine into etch?

[Vergil83]

su
apt-get install wine

[karyoker]

Ok I tried that.. I get the package wine is not availible but is referred to by another. I downloaded from winehq and copied into the cab folder...and unzipped... Even when I give the dir path it doesnt work.

Is a package in a compressed form or just a folder? The only other experience I have is a short stint wirh knoppix and I am just crawling right now..

I did get codeweavers linux crossover installed and then IE 5.0 mdac2.8 and office 2003.. I have winamp running and even the media library is working if I could just get wine..........

[Zelmo]

According to packages.debian.org, wine is indeed available for all branches of Debian. If Vergil83's suggestion doesn't work, then there may be a problem with your connection to the Debian mirror (like /etc/apt/sources.list not being set up correctly).

The alternative is to download the source and compile it yourself. That's the way I've done it for a while now, and it's been reliable. It's just not as easy as doing it through a single apt-get command.

Check your sources.list to make sure it's pointing at a valid Debian mirror, then run apt-get update again and apt-get install wine wine-utils (both as root).

[Fatherdora]

I went to find and typed wine, then clicked on folder. a message says something like kde not configured (do not remember)

Anyway you click on see examples then the wine gui pops up.

that's what happened to me any how.