I can't install Wine

Questions about Wine on Linux
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Spiderham
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I can't install Wine

Post by Spiderham »

Hi,

I'm following the instructions on the website for the second time and yet i fail to install Wine on a Debian based OS.

1. I download the file from
https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/6.0/wine-6.0.2.tar.xz
2. I extract the tar file and read the readme file carefully. It says:
2. QUICK START

From the top-level directory of the Wine source (which contains this file),
run:

./configure
make

Then either install Wine:

make install

Or run Wine directly from the build directory:

./wine notepad

Run programs as "wine program". For more information and problem
resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
especially the wealth of information found at https://www.winehq.org. [/quote]

There are several things i don't understand.
1 - ./configure does something i'm not aware of entirely. It doesn't really launch or install the program. Please note that i tried apt get update to see if there are any changes.

2 - ./configure
make
... makes no difference whatsoever

3 - Is it:
./configure
make
make install

or is it:
./configure
make install

,,, because they're both not working. The system literally makes no changes whatsoever. At least not visible to me.

Is it:
./wine notepad
or is it:
./configure
make
make install
./wine notepad

Because again - it doesn't work. The terminal tells me that there's no such thing as ./wine

I'm terribly confused. I don't want to sound rude, but an installation is not supposed to be that difficult.
The instructions are terribly unclear, because it doesn't say which one follows the other. I think it would be way better if the README file is written with examples of command lines, because i don't know if it's:
./configure
make
or
./configure
make
make install

From this page:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian
i followed the instructions, literally just copy and pasted the commands - nothing.
Sudo apt update - nothing.

Adding those things into sources.list - nothing.

Wine does not work.

Does anybody has an idea, why this small piece of software is so difficult to install on a famous debian distribution?
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dimesio
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Re: I can't install Wine

Post by dimesio »

The tarball is used to build wine yourself, which you probably don't want to do. If you really want to build Wine yourself, see https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine for more information.
From this page:
https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian
i followed the instructions, literally just copy and pasted the commands - nothing.
Sudo apt update - nothing.

Adding those things into sources.list - nothing.
What about the last command--the one where you actually install the package? It sounds like you neglected to do that. You need to.
a famous debian distribution?
Sounds like you're using a Debian derivative, not actual Debian. You are welcome to try our Debian packages, and they may work, but be aware that our packages are built on and for Debian, and may have problems on derivative distros that have made significant changes to the OS.
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