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:
especially the wealth of information found at https://www.winehq.org. [/quote]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
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?