linux newbie wine help

[Antonis]

Hi,

I am trying to get wine installed on my machine. I am right now in the wine development page and I am trying to download the necessary files.

In the download page there many versions of wine. For FreeBSD, Glibc 2.1 Glibc 2.0 also there is a stripped file and an unstripped version.

Could you please tell me which version i sthe right to download for my linux mandrake 8 distribution?

Thanks

[Taizong]

Go for the stripped and let the installer download the other needed files during the installation.

[Antonis]

Thanks,

but which one for the FreeBSD or any of the Glibc?

[bdg1983]

The Glibc version.

rpm -q glibc (to find out the glibc version)

and then download the appropriate one.

[Antonis]

Hi,

thanks for the info now I have downloaded the wine-DATE-tar.bz2
I followed the instructions on the page so I typed
bzip2 -d wine-DATE-tar.bz2
then the instructions say chmod 755 <wine-DATE>
but there is no such file. The tar extension still remains though next to wine-DATE.tar
so i type

tar -xvf wine-DATE

and the file uncompresses without any errors.

Now there is the folder of wine. But do i still have to type the chmod 755 wine-DATE-stripped cause I cant find this file in any of the folder inside the wine main folder.

Anyway I am trying to download now the wine.conf file.

Thanks.

[bdg1983]

I wouldn't really know unless I actually had a look at the files and documentation.

Is there a INSTALL or README in the newly created wine directory?

If there is (and there should be), then follow the instructions to compile and install the package.

[Antonis]

Ok,

I have done whatever was said in the installation guide. Now what I have to do to run a game using wine?

[bdg1983]

I have no idea as I've never really used Wine.

Any documentation installed with the package or at www.winehq.org? (http://www.winehq.org?)

wine.conf should have comments to help you.

[bdg1983]

Also 'man wine'.

I see my documentation for wine is in /usr/share/doc/packages/wine-20010308

Yours may vary, but it should be there.

[ 12 September 2001: Message edited by: mdwatts the 3rd ]