Having trouble updating

[MagicMaster87]

Sorry for posting such a noobish question, but I checked the FAQ and I don't know what I'm doing wrong...

I'm using Linux Mint Elyssa, which I've been told is a Debian-based version of Linux, so I first installed Wine using the instructions here. This gave me Wine 1.0, although I had thought I'd gotten 1.1.4.

So today, I decided to update to 1.1.6, but I have no idea what to do with those .tar.bz2 files. Instead, I decided to try out the alternate instructions for the Git Tree. When I type this command, however...

git diff-index -p HEAD > total-1.1.6.diff

...I get a "fatal: not a git repository" error. So I go to try the CVS commands. This one seems to work fine, but when I check my version again by typing "wine --version" I still get 1.0.

Is there something really obvious I'm missing here?

[Fazer]

You should first go to the directory with your Wine sources (with a command cd).

[vitamin]

So today, I decided to update to 1.1.6, but I have no idea what to do with those .tar.bz2 files. Instead, I decided to try out the alternate instructions for the Git Tree. When I type this command, however...

git diff-index -p HEAD > total-1.1.6.diff

...I get a "fatal: not a git repository" error. So I go to try the CVS commands. This one seems to work fine, but when I check my version again by typing "wine --version" I still get 1.0.

Is there something really obvious I'm missing here?

You have installed binary version of Wine (already precompiled). The "tar.bz2" you talking about is the source code. You can't use it as-is. It needs to be compiled first.

GIT is a "source control system" Wine uses. You can't use it and the tarball (that .tar.bz2 file) together.

If you use tarball - you need to extract it first

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cd ~
tar xjf wine-1.1.6.tar.bz2

Then compile it:

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cd ~/.wine-1.1.6
./configure --verbose
make depend all

However before you try to compile Wine you'll need number of required development packages for it: http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages

[MagicMaster87]

vitamin: I know I can't use the .tar.bz2 (tarball?) files as-is. I didn't even bother trying to download it because I had no idea how to compile them and just moved on to the Git instructions. Sorry if I was unclear about that.

I'll try out your instructions for the tarball file, see if I can manage not to screw that up as well...