installed libx11-dev, then manually checked and installed all the required packages in the Recommended_Packages (http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages) page for debian ran ./tools/wineinstall said no to Code: configure. Finished. Do 'make depend && make' to compile wine. We need to install wine as root user, do you want us to build wine, 'su root' and install Wine? Enter 'no' to continue without installing because i want to install it as a .deb, with checkinstall the file checkinstallrc defaults to being called checkinstallrc-dist for some reason so after editing it no changes took place until it was renamed then set checkinstallrc to Code: BASE_TMP_DIR=/home/user/A/partition6 DOC_DIR="/media/A/partition6/" PAK_DIR="/media/A/partition6/" ran gparted & made a 2gb ext2 partition on my 60gb ext hard drive then cd to /media/A/partition6/wine-1.1.21 su + password/checkinstall & it built a debian package quite quickly Code: Done. The new package has been saved to /media/A/partition6//wine_1.1.21-1_i386.deb You can install it in your system anytime using: dpkg -i wine_1.1.21-1_i386.deb installed the deb, ran wine cfg Code: /home/user> apt-cache policy wine wine: Installed: 1.1.21-1 Candidate: 1.1.21-1 Version table: *** 1.1.21-1 0 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.1.1~winehq0~debian~4.0-1 0 700 http://wine.budgetdedicated.com etch/main Packages 1.0.0-1+eeepc2 0 975 http://updates.xepc.org p701/main Packages 0.9.25-2.1 0 900 http://xnv4.xandros.com etch/main Packages 500 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org etch/main Packages so happy after days of frustration, err sorry learning it works beautifully, and runs the proprietary software, though will test it again! most of the issues were down to the tiny 4gb drive on the eee checkinstall couldn't deal with the space in the usb drive name (/home/user/DataTraveler 2.0/kingston_2) no combination of quotes ""/''/ or backslash would get round it all build/compile/extract etc had to be routed externally thanks so much James for your help, and most of all for giving me the push to give it a go! :D
