• From: Seattle, WA
  • Registered: 2012-01-30
  • Posts: 14

Topic: Another wine thread....

Hello,

Sorry for this post, but I have read all the documentation in this forum about wine and I cannot get it running on my system. The biggest problem I have noticed is that I am running 64 bit. I tried downloading the .deb files from dev.carbonproject but I couldn't get those installed I was getting a weird error(I am a noob) . I have no idea how to compile from source and I even tried installing from the repos but it is so outdated that it isn't even funny.

so what I am trying to say is I would be super grateful if someone can point me to some easy to understand documentation on installing wine on a 64 bit system that isnt 4 years old.

Thank you guys so much,

Erest

  • Registered: 2011-03-09
  • Posts: 3,235

Re: Another wine thread....

since nobody answered you yet i'll give this a shot.

my advice would be to, even if you are a noob, just compile the latest Wine 64 bit from source. it sounds scary but it isn't. it just takes a long time (in the case of Wine) because Wine is big. Wine is constantly being updated so it pays off to have the latest version.

what you should do is just go to the Wine website, check out the latest (stable) Wine 64bit. download the tarball, extract it to a dedicated directory, then read the README and INSTALL etc (if they are there). in there should be instructions. mostly you just need to run in this order:

./configure
make
sudo make install

if you run into errors, just post them here! (don't post the ENTIRE output, just the part where it starts erroring.

good luck!

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