Downloading and installing wine deb package

[dwhitney67]

I want to download the .deb file for "wine" whilst operating under WinXP. Where can I go to get this package?

After I download the package, I will transfer it to my Ubuntu 8.04 system via a Samba share I have set up.

Once the package is on my Ubuntu system, what command do I run to install the package?

P.S. My Ubuntu system does not have internet access at this very moment. I only have access to the internet via my WinXP system.

[Casper Hansen]

Just go to:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download

and download the .deb in a folder which is shared or just put it on a USB-pen.

[kpkeerthi]

Download the latest wine package from here: http://www.getdeb.net/release/3171

1. Copy the deb file to ~/Temp
2. cd ~/Temp
3. To install the deb

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

You could just double-click on the deb file as well and it should being the installation.

[SunnyRabbiera]

Right, as ubuntu has a built in package installer called gdebi.
If you download your .deb file it should install very similar to a .exe installer.

[dwhitney67]

Apparently "wine" is dependent upon "binfmt-support" and "winbind". Any ideas where I may get these packages? Does Ubuntu/Canonical not have a repository where I can get the latest supported .deb packages?

[SunnyRabbiera]

Apparently "wine" is dependent upon "binfmt-support" and "winbind". Any ideas where I may get these packages? Does Ubuntu/Canonical not have a repository where I can get the latest supported .deb packages?

you should be able to get those packages via windows too, search this site:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/

now as for connection issue, atre you using wireless?
and are you trying to install a windows driver of some kind under ubuntu?
fraid it doesnt work that way.

[Casper Hansen]

Just a little question. Why haven't you got Internet connection to your Ubuntu machine?

[dwhitney67]

Actually I am trying to get a wireless CDMA USB adapter (C-motech CCU-680) to work with Ubuntu (and I haven't tried very hard yet!)

I thought I would take a stab at trying to run the application that came with the CCU-680 with Wine to see if it would detect the USB adapter.

Right now I only have internet connection (using the CCU-680) under WinXP, which I am running as a guest OS under VMware Server 2.0 (beta).

On the side, I been wondering if there is a way to tunnel IP traffic from Ubuntu through the WinXP guest OS. It would be nice to obtain some .deb packages that I am missing (e.g. connect-proxy).