How to install wine

[DrDrake]

Well for those of you out there like me who want to get halflife to run and dont feel like reading the documentation, basically:

open your favorite little shell up
type:
export CVSROOT= http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/tongue.gifserver:cvs@cvs.winehq.com:/home/wine
tnen type:
cvs -z 3 checkout wine
and now bamm.. you have a wine directory with fun stuff.. now type:
cd wine
now type ./tools/wineinstall

that will make the newest version of wine and set it up.

To get the halflife side of it up go to lhl.linuxgames.com

DrDrake

[Sterling]

Warning - installing from source or other methods outside your package management system is not recommened. Package management systems usually keep a database of installed files and versions. Overwriting these files or installing files not in the DB can lead to problems. For example, you compile foo from source. It installs bar.so v5. You then install something else, which requires bar.so. It looks at the db, and complains. So you go and install the package of bar.so... Which is v4. Nicely causing some rather nasty problems.

Of course, this is an extreme case. Usually, you're fine. I just advocate caution. Both Mozilla and UT on my system are source installs. A good way to get around this is to put any source installs under /usr/local instead of /usr.

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-Sterling
-This post made with the Lizard! (http://www.mozilla.org)