Running Wine on LMDE

[OvO]

Hi,

is there an easy way to run wine on Linux Mint Debian Edition 64-bit ?

I can install 1.6 and 1.7 but I can't run it because there are no entrys in the menu. And it's not possible to install exe datas anyway.

And I even don't find a way to instal 1.8 or 1.9.

My computer use a amd64 architecture by the way.

[dimesio]

Try the WineHQ Debian packages. https://wiki.winehq.org/Debian

[OvO]

The problem is that "Building wine" to use it on a 64 bit systems seems very complicated for me. I'm still a Newbie and my english is not so good. Especailly in technical things. Thats why I have ask for a simple way.

[dimesio]

I didn't say to build it; just install the WineHQ packages. The instructions are at the top of the page I linked you to.

[OvO]

Doesnt work at this point:

ovo@ovo ~ $ deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ DISTRO main
No command 'deb' found, did you mean:
Command 'debc' from package 'devscripts' (main)
Command 'derb' from package 'icu-devtools' (main)
Command 'debi' from package 'devscripts' (main)
Command 'dwb' from package 'dwb' (main)
deb: command not found

[dimesio]

Read the instructions immediately above that line:

Next add the repository to /etc/apt/sources.list or create a *.list under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with the following content:

It's not something you do at the command line; the instructions are to create a file with that line in it.

That said, those instructions are for Debian, and adding a repository may be different on LMDE. I don't use either, so I really can't help you with that. Ask on the LMDE forum how to add a repository to your package manager.

[OvO]

Oh okay, I know what you mean and where to add this.

And he accepted "oldstable main". But when I updated with "DISTRO watch" he shows me a http404 Error.

Edit:

Okay, I get it. But now I have the same problem as I told in the first post. No Menu Points. I can see "wine-wine" in the menu editor but activating and deactivang have no effect on the menu. Do I have to install something else?

[dimesio]

Plain Wine doesn't add menu entries for itself. When you install apps/games, winemenubuilder should add entries for them (provided they normally create menu entries for themselves in Windows).

To test if your Wine install is working, try running one of Wine's builtin programs (winecfg, notepad, etc.) from a terminal. If that works okay, then go ahead and install your apps/games.

[OvO]

Okay, works fine, Thank you for your help.

Just one last question. Which version do i acutally get by installing "winedevel" and "winestaging" ?

[dimesio]

Wine-devel is the development branch of Wine; wine-staging is several hundred experimental patches applied on top of the development branch. If you have problems with an app or game that is fixed by one of the patches in wine-staging, you probably want to use that branch. If you're not affected by any of the issues it fixes, you might want to stick with the development branch, as the experimental patches may cause new problems.

[OvO]

Yes I know that text but I dont know exactly what it means. My english knowledge comes to an end there. If I interpretade correctly I can say "devel" is a stable version and "staging" is unstable ?

[OvO]

If its possible I would like to install only stable versions. Which actually means version 1.8. In the past I have made the best experiences with actual stable versions.

[dimesio]

The WineHQ repository only contains the latest development and staging releases. If you want 1.8, you'll have to either use the Debian packages or build Wine yourself. And I can't recommend the Debian backages, because they do many non-standard things that are causing problems for users.

The "stable" branch is only "stable" in the sense of "doesn't change much." If 1.9.2 is working for you, you can get the same "stability" by not upgrading.

[OvO]

Well under Mint 17.3 i used Wine 1.8 from deb packages and had no probs.

I have tested devel and staging in the last few hours. And I have found a bug. I can't drag audiofiles in mp3tag and foobar2000 to edit them. I have to do it over the menuline. Circuitous. So it seems that both versions doesn't work for me at the moment. =/

[OvO]

Hm.. there is something that I don't understand.

"sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386"

Do this works for amd architectures?

[dimesio]

Yes.

[OvO]

Okay so.... what about the bug with foobar/mp3tag/draging... I would appreciate it if you could test it by time. I think I have done everything right now. Or should I report it to bugzilla?

[dimesio]

Drag and drop from native apps to apps in Wine doesn't work in many cases. You could file a bug, though it may end up being closed as a duplicate of one of the existing drag-and-drop bugs (possibly https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39372).