puoti\@inwind\.it writes: > Unless you have a really good reason for using the source, I > suggest you install a binary, you can get the official wine > builds here: > https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241 I would recommend the opposite ;). Using Wine requires getting your hands a little dirty, and understanding of what is going on comes faster when installing the source with ./tools/wineinstall. One of the first things people should do when installing Wine is to search for and remove any previous installations: rpm -q --all | grep -i "wine" rpm -e <wine install> cd /usr find -iname "wine*" <remove the usr/lib/wine and/or /usr/local/lib/wine entries> Then download the "wine source from tarballs", extract it with: tar -xzvf Wine-20030813.tar.gz Apply any needed patches that haven't been committed yet, and then: cd <the top-level of the wine sources> ./tools/wineinstall Every few months I also make a copy of my fake-windows tree and my ~/.wine directory, and let wineinstall set them up fresh for me again. You never know when you no longer need a specific native DLL or when the ./wine/config file will add new features. Wine has really improved over the past few months, and to some extent I wouldn't have noticed this fact if I hadn't had my complete-reinstall routine. For instance, I had no idea there was a graphical regedit now, because it had never been linked into my fake windows directory until I did the clean install. Now, I can erase the native copy I had. Anyway, I admit I haven't tried an RPM install in over a year, but my experience with those is that they don't configure everything for you anyway, so if you think you are going to get an easy install you'll just get frustrated because you don't know where to look for things. With the source-tarball install, it is really very easy, and it always installs everything to the same place. My 2 cents. -- Paul McNett _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@winehq.com http://www.winehq.com/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
