David -
Thanks for the instructions. I will try and see what happens. Also, I
have downloaded the user's guide. I will battle through it again and
look for other sources of information.
Thanks,
Dick
David Rowell wrote:
In order to have Synaptic "automagically" update Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
version of Wine you will have to edit the file '/etc/apt/sources.list'
to include a different repository. If I recall correctly this is how
its done - correct me if I'm wrong folks!
First make a backup copy of the file - just in case.
Then edit the file: [sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list]
1 - put a # in the first character of any lines referencing wine to
"comment them out" [you may not have any]
2 - add the following 2 lines to the end of the file [copy & paste
works fine] and save it
deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
deb-src http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt dapper main
Start Synaptic and click Reload. Then make a search for wine. Select
and update wine & libwine. I'd suggest also installing wine-dev &
libwine-dev which may well be needed by some programs.
I also second Danile's suggestion of becoming friendly with the o/l
documentation. My repository suggestion is in the site there somewhere.
Dave Rowell
richard noel fell wrote:
Daniel -
Following your suggestion, I removed the config file and started
afresh and all seems to work as expected. I am using wine 0.9.9 and
installed via synaptic.
More question to come,
Dick
Daniel Skorka wrote:
richard noel fell <fell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there any documentation that instructs a beginner how to
configure (and the logic behind) wine and the steps necessary to
install windows software? I have the user's guide but it does lack
much, particularly what is going on.
"User's guide" as in http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index ?
I am using ubuntu 6.06 and have presumably installed wine
correctly.
What wine version and how did you install it?
However, I cannot configure the system. A typical error message is,
upon invoking winecfg, is:
Warning: the specified Windows directory L"c:\\windows" is not
accessible.
Warning: the specified System directory L"c:\\windows\\system32" is
not accessible.
In a correct, fresh install of wine, this does not happen. Try
'rm -fr ~/.wine'
If that doesn't help, there is something wrong with your wine
installation.
Daniel
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