[Wine] Re: documentation for beginners ?`
David Rowell
djrpublic at cfl.rr.com
Mon Mar 19 00:52:13 CDT 2007
In order to have Synaptic "automagically" update Ubuntu 6.06 LTS version
of Wine you will have to edit the file '/etc/apt/sources.list' to
include a different repository. If I recall correctly this is how its
done - correct me if I'm wrong folks!
First make a backup copy of the file - just in case.
Then edit the file: [sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list]
1 - put a # in the first character of any lines referencing wine to
"comment them out" [you may not have any]
2 - add the following 2 lines to the end of the file [copy & paste
works fine] and save it
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
Start Synaptic and click Reload. Then make a search for wine. Select
and update wine & libwine. I'd suggest also installing wine-dev &
libwine-dev which may well be needed by some programs.
I also second Danile's suggestion of becoming friendly with the o/l
documentation. My repository suggestion is in the site there somewhere.
Dave Rowell
richard noel fell wrote:
> Daniel -
> Following your suggestion, I removed the config file and started afresh
> and all seems to work as expected. I am using wine 0.9.9 and installed
> via synaptic.
> More question to come,
> Dick
>
> Daniel Skorka wrote:
>> richard noel fell <fell at brandeis.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any documentation that instructs a beginner how to configure
>>> (and the logic behind) wine and the steps necessary to install
>>> windows software? I have the user's guide but it does lack much,
>>> particularly what is going on.
>>>
>>
>> "User's guide" as in http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index ?
>>
>>
>>> I am using ubuntu 6.06 and have presumably installed wine correctly.
>>
>> What wine version and how did you install it?
>>
>>
>>> However, I cannot configure the system. A typical error message is,
>>> upon invoking winecfg, is:
>>> Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not
>>> accessible.
>>> Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is
>>> not accessible.
>>>
>>
>> In a correct, fresh install of wine, this does not happen. Try
>> 'rm -fr ~/.wine'
>>
>> If that doesn't help, there is something wrong with your wine
>> installation.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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