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    Installing Wine & EasyTether on Ubuntu 11.10

    Hey ya'll.

    So I'm new to Ubuntu and trying to get my internet set up. I've decided to try EasyTether but I can't seem to figure out how to make it work. I downloaded the .deb file and got it extracted, but when it comes to "Open Terminal on your Linux computer, type easytether connect, press Enter" I'm lost. All I get is

    Code:
     easytether: command not found
    Then I had the bright idea that maybe PdaNet might work through Wine, but I can't figure out how to get Wine working. I downloaded/extracted wine1.3_1.3.28-Oubuntu1_i386.deb and I can see the stupid program sitting on the desktop but the Terminal can't find it.

    Help.ubuntu.com says I should do "winecfg" first and that's met with

    Code:
    The program 'winecfg' can be found in the following packages:
    * wine1.2
    * wine1.3
    Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
    And then when I do that, I get

    Code:
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package wine1.3
    E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'wine1.3'
    I found on another forum someone recommended "sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa; sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install wine1.3" but that seems to want an internet connection -- which I don't have at the moment. Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Installing Wine & EasyTether on Ubuntu 11.10

    Quote Originally Posted by alpacawon View Post
    I downloaded the .deb file and got it extracted
    You have extracted the .deb file instead of installing it. Try doing:
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    sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb
    The easytether command should then work in the terminal.
    Cheesemill

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    Re: Installing Wine & EasyTether on Ubuntu 11.10

    "sudo dpkg -i easytether_0.7.2-1_i386.deb" gives me

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    dpkg: error processing easytether_0.7.2-1_i386.deb (--install):
     cannot access archive: No such file or directory
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     easytether_0.7.2-1_i386.deb
    And the same goes for Wine. Are they in the wrong place?

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    Re: Installing Wine & EasyTether on Ubuntu 11.10

    Where did you download them to?

    To make life easier you can type:
    Code:
    dpkg -i
    and then drag and drop the file onto the terminal, this will make sure you have the correct path.
    Cheesemill

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    Re: Installing Wine & EasyTether on Ubuntu 11.10

    I downloaded the .debs to the desktop so I wouldn't lose them. That's a neat trick, dragging and dropping, but now I get a new error

    Code:
    dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege

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    Re: Installing Wine & EasyTether on Ubuntu 11.10

    Quote Originally Posted by alpacawon View Post
    I downloaded the .debs to the desktop so I wouldn't lose them. That's a neat trick, dragging and dropping, but now I get a new error

    Code:
    dpkg: error: requested operation requires superuser privilege
    Sorry, it should be:
    Code:
    sudo dpkg -i
    Cheesemill

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