HOWTO: Install latest official wine.

[xodeus]

Hi.
This guide is for all those folks that want to install Wine the easy way and Maintain for the newest version.
This is taken from http://winehq.org/site/download-deb WinwHQ's own guide.

At first add the Wine GPG key

wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Then it's time to add a source to your apt. It's done very easily by a single command

For Ubuntu Feisty (7.04):

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/feisty.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For Ubuntu Edgy (6.10):

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/edgy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

For Ubuntu Dapper (6.06):

sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/dapper.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

Then update your apt and install

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine

64-bit Users:

Packages for the 64 bit version of Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) are now available, however for users of Debian and older Ubuntus the entries above are for i386 users only. Attempting to use these repositories with a different architecture (eg amd64), will result in 404 errors as APT will be looking for files not in the repository.

If you are using an older 64 bit distribution and would still like a working Wine package, there is a relatively easy hack that can be used to install the 32-bit package into the 64-bit distribution and have it function normally. See this page on the Wine wiki for more details.

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If you want to use this version with Internet Explorer then use Sidenet Wine Configuration Utility

For other applications you can use the guides at Franks Corner
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Update. I'm back here and have just edited it to be exactly the same as on the WineHQ.

[Arandomcow5]

FINNALLY A GUIDE THAT WORKS FOR ME!!!!

ive been trying for weeks to install wine with many failed attempts....
this guide seems to work (i say seems only because it allowed me to install AOE2, and its still installing. I dont know if it will run or not)

I feel really stupid now...that guide seems so simple

UPDATE: well...it completely downloaded age of empires....but now i have no clue where the exe file is....
but when it was downloaded, and it asked me if i wanted to play the game, i said "yes" and it gave me this huge error (i meen like 100-200 lines long or sumtin like that)
meh....ill try winetools

[franziski]

Hi.
You can continue using wine or installing winetools.
Winetools howto

Installing of winetools by using apt-get fails

root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install winetools
Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto
Generazione dell'albero delle dipendenze in corso... Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti NUOVI (NEW) saranno installati:
  winetools
0 aggiornati, 1 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
È necessario prendere 382kB di archivi.
Dopo l'estrazione, verranno occupati 2758kB di spazio su disco.
ATTENZIONE: i seguenti pacchetti non possono essere autenticati!
  winetools
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://wine.sourceforge.net binary/ winetools 2.1.1-1
  404 Not Found
Impossibile ottenere http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/binary/old/winetools_2.1.1-1_all.deb  404 Not Found
E: Impossibile prendere alcuni archivi, forse è meglio eseguire apt-get update o provare l'opzione --fix-missing

[xodeus]

Installing of winetools by using apt-get fails

root@ubuntu:~# apt-get install winetools
Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto
Generazione dell'albero delle dipendenze in corso... Fatto
I seguenti pacchetti NUOVI (NEW) saranno installati:
  winetools
0 aggiornati, 1 installati, 0 da rimuovere e 0 non aggiornati.
È necessario prendere 382kB di archivi.
Dopo l'estrazione, verranno occupati 2758kB di spazio su disco.
ATTENZIONE: i seguenti pacchetti non possono essere autenticati!
  winetools
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
Err http://wine.sourceforge.net binary/ winetools 2.1.1-1
  404 Not Found
Impossibile ottenere http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/binary/old/winetools_2.1.1-1_all.deb  404 Not Found
E: Impossibile prendere alcuni archivi, forse è meglio eseguire apt-get update o provare l'opzione --fix-missing

You didn't follow this guide here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...81&postcount=4

[franziski]

You didn't follow this guide here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...81&postcount=4

Installed but it doesn't work well (like previous version installed through apt
before adding wine repositories): click on "Base setup" but happens nothing and come back to menu; same happens with other menu entries.

[AndyAWS]

I don't think winetools works very well with the latest wine snapshot.

I used sidenet for my wine configuration.
http://sidenet.ddo.jp/winetips/config.html

Sidestep worked great for me, but all I use wine for is IE (when some idiot-site requires it), and for MS Freecell.

[Mr. Electric Wizard]

Dang, I just wish I could get MS Word to install...

[Verlager]

I sure couldn't get it to work. I followed the instructions at http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost...81&postcount=4

rmack@ubuntu:~/temp/winetools$ sudo sh install.sh
Installing WineTools to /usr/local/winetools...
Installing translations...
install.sh: line 22: msgfmt: command not found
Installed translations for de_DE@euro to /usr/local/share/locale/de_DE@euro/LC_MESSAGES/wt2.mo
install.sh: line 22: msgfmt: command not found
Installed translations for es to /usr/local/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/wt2.mo
Start WineTools as *normal* user with "wt2". Don't use as root!
rmack@ubuntu:~/temp/winetools$

NOTHING ! Just error messages...

Now to try wt2:

rmack@ubuntu:~/temp/winetools$ wt2
found gettext in path
Browser is /usr/bin/firefox.
no suitable Wine directory found...
/usr/local/winetools/Xdialog: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Wine 0
wine is executed as wine
Parameters are --noexit
Wine is not configured yet!
/usr/local/winetools/Xdialog: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Calls to wine are executed as wine.
Config is /home/rmack/.wine/winetools.log.
CDROM is .
/usr/local/winetools/Xdialog: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/usr/local/winetools/Xdialog: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
rmack@ubuntu:~/temp/winetools$

NOTHING! Just more error messages!

[Mishura]

You need the GTK1.2 libraries, which are not default in Ubuntu's install.. lemme see here..

Ah yes. The package names are:

libgtk1.2
libgtk1.2-dev
libgtk1.2-common

Should work now. **I think**.

[bogyit]

Hi

I've a problem! I've been using wine's old version, but yesterday I made the upgrade and Internet Explorer now fails to open, or better it doesn't do anything at all.. so I removed Wine and reinstalled (reading this topic and the one related to WineTools) and all went fine.. BUT when I try to download Internet Explorer from Microsoft site I get a funny message:

Setup was unable to download the required components. Please make sure you are connected to the Internet, or try to run Setup again later.

And I'm receiving this message since yesterday, is anybody experiencing the same problem? Any ideas or workaround solution?

Thanks in advance

note: this is my first post here, I hope is the right place