Wine Installation Complexity in Linux
Wine Installation Complexity in Linux
For the past several years Wine has become so much more of a headache to install. About 5 years ago one only had to go to the Package Manager, click on Wine to install and that was it. It installed without any issues and you were good to go. Now I have to look all over the Internet to find missing dependicies, instructions, etc. Why has the Wine development team abandoned SIB-KIS? See It Big-Keep It Simple. It seems that Wine has become the proverbial Frankenstein monster!
Re: Wine Installation Complexity in Linux
Two main causes:
- Wine updates are a lot faster than 5 years ago. This may prevent your Linux distribution from keeping track of Wine.
Think about the libfaudio0 libraries. These are not available by default for Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 10.
Fortunately, they are so nice here at WineHQ to make them available. Yes, you have to add them manually.
- Wine needs both 32-bit and 64-bit packages. Many third party repositories only have the 64-bit packages.
In other words:
If you are using an up-to-date release, without third-party package sources, you will have no problem installing the latest WineHQ packages.
- Wine updates are a lot faster than 5 years ago. This may prevent your Linux distribution from keeping track of Wine.
Think about the libfaudio0 libraries. These are not available by default for Ubuntu 18.04 or Debian 10.
Fortunately, they are so nice here at WineHQ to make them available. Yes, you have to add them manually.
- Wine needs both 32-bit and 64-bit packages. Many third party repositories only have the 64-bit packages.
In other words:
If you are using an up-to-date release, without third-party package sources, you will have no problem installing the latest WineHQ packages.
