Installing Wine from source for LMDE

[wshyang]

Put together a little script that I quite liked, so I thought it might be helpful to someone else as well

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#!/bin/bash

LATEST_UBUNTU="precise"
cat > /tmp/ubuntu-src.list <<UBUNTUSRC
###### Ubuntu Main Repos
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${LATEST_UBUNTU} main restricted universe multiverse

###### Ubuntu Update Repos
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${LATEST_UBUNTU}-security main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${LATEST_UBUNTU}-updates main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${LATEST_UBUNTU}-proposed main restricted universe multiverse 
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ ${LATEST_UBUNTU}-backports main restricted universe multiverse 
UBUNTUSRC
sudo cp -v /tmp/ubuntu-src.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-src.list
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 40976EAF437D05B5
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y build-dep wine
WINE_VER="1.3.12"
wget -O /tmp/wine-src.tar.bz2 "http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-${WINE_VER}.tar.bz2"
tar -vxjf /tmp/wine-src.tar.bz2
sh -c "cd wine-${WINE_VER} && ./configure && make depend && make && sudo checkinstall && mv -v *.deb ../"
rm -rv "wine-${WINE_VER}"
sudo apt-get -y install winetricks

[Oscar799]

Moved here by moderator

[zerozero]

a few questions:
1- since you decided to make this script why not use http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ instead of ubuntu?
2- why "precise" and not "oneiric" or "quantal"? what's the rationale behind this option?

for me Q1 is laziness, period!

Q2 is a shot in the dark, precise "was" partly based in sid (better, in a snapshot of sid from the time precise was released), lmde is neither, it's not sid, it's not precise and not even testing exactly (due to the fact of the buffer that the UP carry),

this script is a shot in the dark in a moving target (all the ingredients to disaster)

[wshyang]

Q1: Actually the reason why I did it was because I didn't want an unstable version, but a known good version

Q2: You have a point... I actually took that bit from a wiki page on WineHQ, and while it felt odd, it did work. Is there any better way of ensuring that my build dependencies are right on my Mint installation before I build Wine from source?

[zerozero]

ok, fair enough, you have here 1.4
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/02 ... -wine.html following that and this http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/ you can compile (within the proper debian rules) any version of wine in lmde.
give it a try

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amadeu@amadeu ~ $ apt-cache policy wine-1.4
wine-1.4:
  Installed: 1.4-rc5-1
  Candidate: 1.4-rc5-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.4-rc5-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
amadeu@amadeu ~ $ which wine
/usr/local/bin/wine
amadeu@amadeu ~ $ apt show wine-1.4
Package: wine-1.4
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.4-rc5-1
Priority: extra
Section: checkinstall
Maintainer: root@amadeu
Architecture: amd64
Uncompressed Size: 129 M
Description: wine1.4