What is approved way of installing Wine on LMDE

[rozen]

Hi,

I am running LinuxMint-Cinnamon-64bit on a Dell DXP061. Its pretty important to me to get Wine running on LMDE. I note and understand the disapproval of using an Ubuntu deb and there does not seem to be a Wine package the repositories of LMDE.

When I look at the official Debian repositories there are Wine packages for stable, testing, unstable, and experimental. So why am I not finding it in the debian.linuxmint repositories? I thought LMDE was Debian testing.

The situation with gimp 2.8 is similar.

Can I add an official Debian repository to my sources.list and then use apt to install Wine or other such packages?

You can see that I am pretty confused about the distribution I am running. I would certainly appreciate any clarification.

Thanks, in Advance,
Don

[crborga]

If you are using LMDE then it's posted in the wrong place. From Terminal run

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cat /proc/version

and post output here

[Oscar799]

Moved here by moderator

[crborga]

LMDE is based off SID snapshots which is Unstable so you can use the Unstable packages

[zerozero]

for the specific wine question try one of the suggestions here >> http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=101790

for the more general information about lmde (and the way it works with testing) see here >> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=197&t=91405

with that in mind, you can now, easily grab wine and gimp from testing.

or if you really feel brave you can try apt-pinning http://forum.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=101581

good luck

[zerozero]

LMDE is based off SID snapshots which is Unstable so you can use the Unstable packages

sorry but no, lmde is testing with a buffer, always was.

[crborga]

LMDE is based off SID snapshots which is Unstable so you can use the Unstable packages

sorry but no, lmde is testing with a buffer, always was.

Well testing was unstable before it became testing Ok, I had a misunderstanding of the Debian releases but anyway I used the unstable packages on winehq but that is just me. I stand corrected