Re: wine installation help needed
--- Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/22/06, Xplicit Language
> <xplicitlanguage@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > i am in need of someone that has installed wine
> > before, i also have the choice of using xwine, i
> have
> > synaptic package manager prepared for the newest
> > version of wine, also once it is installed, how
> will i
> > install the .exe files?
>
> In my experience you no longer need xwine, as wine
> autoconfigures pretty well and if you do need to
> change
> anything, wine has a built-in graphical config tool.
>
> When you install wine, I think it associates wine
> with
> .exe files, so in gnome or kde you just double click
> on the .exe. On the command line, type:
> wine someprogram.exe
>
> > i get this error message for almost everything,
> with
> > slight differences on why it is not going to be
> > installed... help plz
> >
> > wine:
> > Depends: libxxf86dga1 but it is not installable
>
> You can try finding that package and setting it by
> hand
> to be installed, instead of letting it be set by the
> dependency handler. If that doesn't work you will
> have
> to figure out the specifics of what is causing the
> problem.
>
> Also, are you running debain stable (sarge) or
> testing (etch)?
>
> Cheers,
> Kelly
>
i am running sarge 3.1 stable, and in the terminal i
have tried su entered my password, then apt-get
install
the URL, apt-get update the URL, nothing i know of so
far is working out, might you have another idea of how
i can do it by hand?
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