Wine won't install in Debian Betsy

[lend27]

Betsy installed great and I have it configured well.
But when I install wine from the software manager, it installs but doesn't show in my applications.
It doesn't appear to install all the dependencies.
Is there any way to get wine working?

Thanks
Len

[d4rk50ld13r]

Hi

you can call it using terminal :

d4rk ~ # wine
Usage: wine PROGRAM [ARGUMENTS...] Run the specified program
wine --help Display this help and exit
wine --version Output version information and exit
d4rk ~ #

To run a windows application , simply input wine in terminal followed by the application name .
Like this :

d4rk ~ # wine netscan.exe
( i used netscan as an example).

[Flemur]

Wine won't install in Debian Betsy
But when I install wine from the software manager, it installs but doesn't show in my applications.

It won't install, but it installs. OK.

What applications are you expecting it to show, and where?

Are they applications that you used wine to install, like this:
$ wine setup.exe
?

If so, they should *probably* have a (linux) menu entry.
If they're "portable" windows apps, or you copied an install dir from somewhere, they won't have menu entries.

It doesn't appear to install all the dependencies.

What seems to be missing?

Is there any way to get wine working?

Try
$ wine --version

If it's installed it'll give the version.

To make it work,
$ wine programname.exe

[yquux]

Hello,
I've got the same 'issue' - I think this is also linked with this post : http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 8&t=192282 ("LMDE 2 64Bit RC-WINE 1.6 Stable Does Not Show In Menu?")
Indeed, it works fine with the terminal - but any 'newbie' coming from an ubuntu distro (like me) is used to getting a "Wine" folder created in the Start Menu applications + the ability to right-ciick on a .exe file and select 'start with Wine'.
It does not seem to work currently... or maybe is even not the case on pure-Debian ? (can't remember)

Yquux

[Flemur]

Indeed, it works fine with the terminal - but any 'newbie' coming from an ubuntu distro (like me) is used to getting a "Wine" folder created in the Start Menu applications + the ability to right-ciick on a .exe file and select 'start with Wine'.

So the problem is lack of 'wine' menus, not the rest of the install - ?

Dunno what to say about that since I don't use menus, but you should be able to get the "Open [.exe file] with wine" function using your file browser: rt-click on .exe file->Open with other application -> type in 'wine'.

[Trapper]

For what it's worth, installing wine on Debian Jessie has the same characteristics as it does in Betsy .... very minimalistic. I tried an install on Linux Mint 13 and there were a large number supporting files installed in a default apt-get wine install that do not get installed in LMDE2 and Jessie.

I am not surprised at Debian's minimal support for wine out of the box. Many of the supporting files go against Debian's grain and philosophy. That's not to say you can't find ways around that for your own use though. I have not checked yet but I suspect more info that may help can be found in the Debian forums.

[d4rk50ld13r]

Tutorial is here : http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 1&t=194149

[yquux]

@Flemur
Txs, the "rt-click on .exe file->Open with other application -> type in 'wine'" method works very well - then when right-clicking on the same exe it will always suggest "Open with wine" and it works.
For some reasons (that I am not sure to understand), it didn't work even by using terminal on another computer (fresh LMDE2 install). I eventually added all suggested packages by Synaptic for wine and wine64 and it worked (maybe some of the needed packages were already installed on my first computer...).

No 'Wine' menu, I can live with it - so I would consider the problem solved but I let it up to lend27.

[killer de bug]

Right click on the menu, Configure --> edit menu

Check the box in front of Wine and it will show in the menu. No need of ppa.

[Trapper]

Right click on the menu, Configure --> edit menu

Check the box in front of Wine and it will show in the menu. No need of ppa.

My install of 1.6 did not provide a Wine box to check. It provided a box labeled 'wine-wine' and the unchecked check box wasn't checkable. I finally just uninstalled it all and installed the sid 1.7 packages from liquorix.net.