Wine on Linux Mint 14

[hamiksu]

hi all..

I'm a newbie to Linux Mint and is trying to install Wine for it.
at the moment, I am totally stuck as to what to download and what to do to install it..



any help will be deeeply appreciated.

Thank you..

[dimesio]

AFAIK, Mint uses the Ubuntu packages.

[André H.]

yes, so just install wine as you would with any other software

[hamiksu]

let me rephrase my question..

is there anyway to install wine on my linux Mint offline..?

[dimesio]

Download the file and install it the same way you would any other package you've downloaded. If you don't know how to use your package manager to install a package that's been downloaded, ask on your distro's support forum. It's not a Wine question.

[hamiksu]

ok then..

can you direct me to the direct link to download the offline WINE for Mint? (I can't seem to find it)
thank you..

[wforum]

If you want to install the download deb file, you can either use command "sudo dpkg -i file.deb" or right click on the file in file manager and choose to install with gdebi package installer. It may, however, need to download and install some more packages (dependencies of wine package).

[dimesio]

can you direct me to the direct link to download the offline WINE for Mint? (I can't seem to find it)
thank you..

There is no "offline WINE for Mint" or for any other distro. There are packages that most people just install directly from the repository, but which can be downloaded and installed from a local drive if you want to do it that way. Assuming Mint uses the Ubuntu packages, download it from the Ubuntu PPA. http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-wine/ub ... w/wine1.5/

Note that wforum is correct: there may be dependencies that also need to be installed. If your plan is to download on one computer and then install it on another computer that is not connected to the internet at all, you will need to manually download and install all those dependencies, too.

[hamiksu]

ouch....

at 137 meg (last I checked), having it to do for different PC going to pinch.
especially with my super duper ultra slow turtle internet speed..

haha, but I guess thats my problem.
thanks for the replies guys.. appreciate it lots..

[gz_khan11]

hi i am new in linux ,i have installed wine by pakages but don't have any information to use in linux..can anybody help me please

[dimesio]

hi i am new in linux ,i have installed wine by pakages but don't have any information to use in linux..can anybody help me please

The FAQ is a good place to start. http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ