I just got Absolute-linux (http://www.absolutelinux.org/) and it says its based off Slackware.
and i see wine (http://www.winehq.org/download/) that i want.
well I'm a noob with Linux, JUST got the thing installed on an old computer because I finally bought a little 100gb HDD at a garage sale. Anyways, as far as the Wine programing goes, i see Ubuntu and Debian, Redhat, SUSE, all of which are gibberish to me sorta. Is there wine availability for the Linux kernel I have, or will Ubuntu just be better?
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Which Wine-Linux can i use?
Hi, and welcome to Linux. I'm not sure exactly how Slackware-based distros work, as I haven't used one before. Judging from the Absolute Linux webpage, you should be able to use Slackware packages in Absolute. Where you found all of the other versions (Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, etc), there should be a Slackware option somewhere. Click on it, and it should take you to the available Wine versions, the newest at this time of writing being Wine 1.3.24. I can't really help you much more with this method, as I don't know how to install software in Slackware/Absolute
Alternatively, Linux distros generally have a package manager installed (for example, apt-get/Aptitude in Ubuntu) that handle most of the installation work for you. I might recommend checking out Absolute Linux's package manager (sorry, not sure which one its using) and seeing if you can install Wine with it. This would probably be the easiest method, as long as you don't need the newest versions of Wine as soon as it comes out (that is, sometimes there is a delay for the package managers to update their version of Wine).
Hibba.
Alternatively, Linux distros generally have a package manager installed (for example, apt-get/Aptitude in Ubuntu) that handle most of the installation work for you. I might recommend checking out Absolute Linux's package manager (sorry, not sure which one its using) and seeing if you can install Wine with it. This would probably be the easiest method, as long as you don't need the newest versions of Wine as soon as it comes out (that is, sometimes there is a delay for the package managers to update their version of Wine).
Hibba.
