How do I use the developers version of Wine 1.1.20?

jasonmh · Post by **jasonmh** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:27 am

I'm still not sure how I did it, but I managed to use the link http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine for the latest development version, and even installed git (blind man navigating New York City streets). So now all I have to do is

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git fetch ; git rebase origin

to stay up to date. My question is how do I run programs with it? When I do the normal

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wine setup.exe

for example, it says that I don't have Wine installed.

The reason I'm trying to do this is because the Wine in the repository won't even install Warhammer or EQ2 (for example), and the steps to install Wine manually get about as far as uncompressing the thing to my computer. lol I sure wish I knew what voodoo your clever Linux users were using to get this program to work right. I had thought I understood computers pretty well until I installed Jaunty Jackalope and tried using Wine

jasonmh · Post by **jasonmh** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 2:57 am

I think that the download link for Ubuntu needs to be changed to http://www.winehq.org/download/deb. The process they have in the current page just led me to ... well read the above. The deb process was very easy to follow, so now I'm just stuck with a "BadWindow" error... whatever that is. Sooo here we go again lol

James Huk · Post by **James Huk** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 5:02 am

2009/4/25 jasonmh <[email protected]>

I'm still not sure how I did it, but I managed to use the link
http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine for the latest development version, and
even installed git (blind man navigating New York City streets). So now all
I have to do is
Code:
git fetch ; git rebase origin

to stay up to date. My question is how do I run programs with it? When I
do the normal
Code:
wine setup.exe

for example, it says that I don't have Wine installed.

The reason I'm trying to do this is because the Wine in the repository
won't even install Warhammer or EQ2 (for example), and the steps to install
Wine manually get about as far as uncompressing the thing to my computer.
lol I sure wish I knew what voodoo your clever Linux users were using to get
this program to work right. I had thought I understood computers pretty well
until I installed Jaunty Jackalope and tried using Wine [Embarassed]
[Shocked]

I can't say that I understand what you did in 100% but... whenever you get

source code of wine (or any other app) you MUST compile it first (build your
app). For wine follow this steps:

1.sudo apt-get build-dep wine (that should get all dependencies required to
build wine)

2.sudo apt-get install checkinstall (this tool will allow you to build .deb
package of wine after compilation)

3.(in wine source dir) ./configure && make depend && make

OR if your CPU have many cores:

./configure && make depend -jX && make -jX where X is numeber of cores your
CPU has

After (hopefully, successful) compilation just type:

sudo checkinstall

and follow instructions there - it should install wine at the end - if it
won't just install it by hand:

sudo dpkg -i wine_<something>.deb

Now you are all set, just type wine appname.exe to start something ;]
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Post by **dimesio** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:42 am

jasonmh wrote:I think that the download link for Ubuntu needs to be changed to http://www.winehq.org/download/deb. The process they have in the current page just led me to ... well read the above.

That already is the download link for Ubuntu binary package; there's nothing to change. My guess is that you mistakenly clicked on link for git on the Announcements page. The links for source packages, binary packages, and git are very clearly differentiated on that page. Reading before clicking is generally a good idea.

As far as getting further help, you need to tell us what version of Wine, what app, and post console output.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 12:31 pm

On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 2:27 AM, jasonmh <[email protected]> wrote:

I'm still not sure how I did it, but I managed to use the link http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine for the latest development version, and even installed git (blind man navigating New York City streets). So now all I have to do is
Code:
git fetch ; git rebase origin

Â to stay up to date. My question is how do I run programs with it? When I do the normal
Code:
wine setup.exe

Â for example, it says that I don't have Wine installed.

The reason I'm trying to do this is because the Wine in the repository won't even install Warhammer or EQ2 (for example), and the steps to install Wine manually get about as far as uncompressing the thing to my computer. lol I sure wish I knew what voodoo your clever Linux users were using to get this program to work right. I had thought I understood computers pretty well until I installed Jaunty Jackalope and tried using Wine Â [Embarassed] Â [Shocked]

It's really easy, after you do your:
$ git fetch ; git rebase origin

every day, Monday - Friday, then do:

$ ./configure && make depend && make

To compile the newest version, simply do:

$ sudo make install

to install wine to /usr/local/bin. Assuming that is in your $PATH (it
most likely is), then you can again use
$ wine foobar.exe

as before. You can verify the version with:
$ wine --version

which will likely say something like 'wine-1.1.19-153-g55ad3fd'.

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-Austin