wine on Mint Debian

[bishy]

Hi All, I have recently installed Mint Linux Debian edition and very nice it runs too.

I have one small problem, I found Wine very difficult to install but managed to download this file :- wine_1.3.33-1_i386.deb from an internet forum, which I then installed using the GDebi package installer. Wine seems to work, but I cannot find the Wine configuration option, or the Wine uninstaller option which I am sure I had the last time I installed Mint Debian (I think it was under applications/accessories before).

Any help with this would be gratefully received.

BTW. I need the configuration option as I am trying to get Wine to run a game at 256 colours.

Thanks again for any help.

bishy.

[xenopeek]

Moved here by moderator

[tdockery97]

You are probably missing many Wine packages. I would recommend uninstalling what you already did, then install the packages and follow the directions here: http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/. It is geared specifically for installing the latest Wine on Debian.

NOTE: You may have to temporarily add the Debian Sid repository to your sources list so that all dependencies are available. Then edit your sources.list again and comment out (#) the Sid repository.

Keep in mind that installing the latest Wine development build is considered unstable, so your mileage may vary.

[bishy]

Hi tdockery,

Thanks for your reply, uninstalling the Wine I had and then re installing via your method worked a treat. I now have a Wine configuration and a Wine uninstaller.

Thanks once again for your help, it is appreciated.

Speak to you soon.

bishy.

EDIT.......Synaptic complained that I had broken packages I told it to fix this and guess what, I am back to where I started with no configuration option and no uninstaller option

I guess this Linux lark is all a bit too much for me, I seem to spend hours achieving nothing, so I think I will revert to Windows as with that everything just works.