Wine for Mint 11 Debian distro..!

[viveklovesmint]

I am a newbie to Debian kinda distros. Can some one guide me as to how can i install wine on Mint11 Deb LXDE ?? I googled up this already and didnt get a working solution.

And this what i get when i attempt to install wine through Terminal.
vivek Desktop #

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aptitude install wine

No candidate version found for wine
No candidate version found for wine
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 421 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used.
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Thanks in advance.

[Oscar799]

Moved here from the main forum

[cottfcfan]

The best way I have found is by downloading the relevant .deb packages from here to your Desktop:
http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/
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cd Desktop

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sudo dpkg -i

If you get messages complaining of errors or missing dependencies you'll need to run:

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sudo apt-get -f install

You may need to run that several times.
Hope this helps.

[FerroPower]

If you are using 64 bit Debian version you will also need to install ia32 libs compatible graphics drivers to run wine games or apps at optimum speed and compatibility.

Even after install all the dependent files you might still into some glitches as some games or apps run 100% perfect while some might crash the PC, its always better to run the game in 800x600 window mode before as you can control and kill the game if it gets hung. later you can switch to fullscreen mode if it runs perfectly without resizing your screen.

[ombudsman]

Try #dpkg -i *.deb
for the middle step