Wine on LMDE

[lqua]

Has anyone installed Wine on Linux Mint Debian Edition?

From the WineHQ.org site, the installation instructions for Debian seems virtually useless to anyone who doesn't have developer knowledge of building software.

[Oscar799]

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[diazepan11]

I particulary used this

http://www.lamaresh.net/binary.php

[grizzler]

The most recent versions on that site appear to be almost two years old (1.1.42 - april 2010). The stable release is 1.4 now and they've already started working on the 1.5 development branch.

I regularly pick up new deb packages here and they usually work fine.

[craigevil]

you can install wine 1.5 from http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ download the files for your system, put them all in one folder, open a terminal cd to that folder sudo dpkg -i *.deb if you get any errors run apt-get -f install

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[lqua]

That's what I've been trying to install from, craigevil. I downloaded all 16 of the amd64 deb files from carbon-project, then run sudo dpkg -i *.deb. There are dependency failures, so I then run sudo apt-get -f install, but that only deletes all of the wine packages! I get nowhere. I have ia32 libs installed on my 64-bit system.

Linux has been my principle OS for about four years now. Mostly Ubuntu. I consider myself competent as a non-developer Linux user, and am comfortable with the command prompt. I'm glad that Linux Mint is attempting to tame Debian, because it generally seems to remain contemptuous toward casual and novice end-users.

Is it possible for LMDE to utilize the Ubuntu ppa repository at Launchpad?

[zerozero]

Is it possible for LMDE to utilize the Ubuntu ppa repository at Launchpad?

read here about lmde and ppa's viewtopic.php?f=197&t=91405&hilit=+faq
here you have about 1001 ways to install wine in a debian system (even repos from other distros- as always use with caution, things might break) viewtopic.php?f=190&t=76928&start=0&hilit=wine

[emilthomasg]

you can install wine 1.5 from http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ download the files for your system, put them all in one folder, open a terminal cd to that folder sudo dpkg -i *.deb if you get any errors run apt-get -f install

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Hi I have installed wine successfully but every time I use the update manager the wine packages are seen as broken and has broken dependencies. When updating I get asked to remove Wine and it's dependencies. I obviously want to keep Wine as it is working well for me. What is the solution to this problem?
Thanks

[grizzler]

Did you use sudo apt-get -f install as craigevil suggested?

[emilthomasg]

Did you use sudo apt-get -f install as craigevil suggested?

Yes I did but not helping, maybe Update Pack 4 will have a solution to the Wine issue?

[grizzler]

Not sure if update pack 4 made the difference (I remember picking up some missing dependency from the sid repo months ago), but I have just downloaded the 1.5.0 packages from the carbon-project.org site and they installed without any problems.

If you run the dpkg command, does it produce any errors?

[Brian49]

I'm still using the stable version of Wine (1.0.1) from the Unstable repository, which enables me to run the few Windows applications I'm interested in (mainly small utilities) with no problems. Am I missing out on anything important by not chasing the latest unstable versions?

[emilthomasg]

Not sure if update pack 4 made the difference (I remember picking up some missing dependency from the sid repo months ago), but I have just downloaded the 1.5.0 packages from the carbon-project.org site and they installed without any problems.

If you run the dpkg command, does it produce any errors?

No errors seen so far.

[emilthomasg]

I'm still using the stable version of Wine (1.0.1) from the Unstable repository, which enables me to run the few Windows applications I'm interested in (mainly small utilities) with no problems. Am I missing out on anything important by not chasing the latest unstable versions?

Don't think you are missing out by not using the latest version, I'm using Wine for basic usage and not on a daily basis any more.