Stephen Constantinou wrote: > Dear Derek > > I am very grateful for this suggestion. I start to get very nervous at > this stage as downloading applications and installing them has seldom > gone smoothly. Anything Windows I am fine with but still learning > Linux. Even knowing which file to download confuses me. Binaries and > packages or source archive? Therefore reading the documentation is > pointless as I do not know the basics. > > For example this web page > http://www.winehq.com/?announce=latest > presents me with too many options because I lack the experience to know > if I should be downloading > http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-0.9.35.tar.bz2 > or > wine-0.9.30-mdk.i586.rpm > from the distro specific link. Which ever one it is I would not know > what to do next. > In unix world usually file extensions tar.bz2 or tar.gz or even tar means that file is just an archive of source code. So, if you a does not have wide experience in unix or linux you wouldn't need it. rpm stands for binary package of a program, and you can install it through RPM packaging system that Mandriva uses for software management. Then i586 stands for computer architecture this package was built. mdk says to you that this package was built especially for Mandrake or Mandriva distribution. So finally, this file will be your choise for now. But as you can see, source package have version of 0.9.35 but rpm one have 0.9.30. Most recent version of Wine for today is 0.9.35, so you may try to find more recent rpm package for your system. I think you can install any rpm file downloaded via some package management program with graphical interface but i don't know what program Mandriva uses. Anyway you can try to install it with command like that for update: rpm -Uvf /path/to/file.rpm for fresh install rpm -ivf /path/to/file.rpm Maybe there are some other options to rpm command, you can look at man rpm or in any FAQ on the Internet. _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
