can't install wine :(

[gwolf2u]

hello guys,

I have a CentOS distribution installed but seems I can't install wine with the yum command
I have tried

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yum install wine

but no go
it outputs

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Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net
Excluding Packages in global exclude list
Finished
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package wine available.
Nothing to do

what should I do
note that I'm no expert in linux so any help is highly appreciated

[Martin Gregorie]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 14:24 -0500, gwolf2u wrote:

hello guys,

I have a CentOS distribution installed but seems I can't install wine
with the yum command
I have tried

If you know the name of a repository that contains the wine package you
can add it to the yum configuration.

I've done that to my (Fedora) setup for atrpms and RPMfusion. The
preferred method varies from repo to repo: RPMfusion downloads the
extension as a small rom package while atrpms supplies text to add to
the yum configuration, so you need to get the configuration extension
from the repo website. As Fedora supports wine directly, I can't suggest
a suitable repo or how to configure yum to use it.


Martin

[Ace Blackwell]

I have Slackware64 and what I do is down load the source file. Then decompress it. At that point from a terminal or command line change directories in to the expanded folder. Look to change into the tool folder. Once in there type

sh wineinstall

It will install from there. It takes a while for the program to compile but it works fine afterward

Ace

[ahso]

yes wineinstall but make sure to have all needed libs. There's a page explaining this, google

updating is as simple as:

make uninstall

from the downloaded Wine directory