Using Wine

[tedanderson]

At this point I have successfully installed Ubuntu and have been using it for a little more than a month. One thing that I am having trouble with is installing Wine and using it.

I downloaded it to the GNOME desktop and I've read the user guides on the Ubuntu site but I am still lost- I thought it was as simple as uncompressing the files in the folder after I downloaded it and clicking on an executable file and letting it walk me through the process but apparently this is not the case.

Where do I begin? What must I do? I need a revelation because I have no clue.

[[Director] Joseph B]

Well, I always just put the wine in a glass and just drink it.

But seriously, I have no idea what you're talking about (as you can guess I don't use linux). I'm sure the real answers will be coming soon.

[Lukky]

You need to join the Linux forum. There are lots of people there who will help you on wine and anything else.

http://ubuntuforums.org

[cjlowe]

AFAIK, you shouldn't need to download and decompress wine to install it; it should be as simple as installing it using Synaptic.

Second the recommendation to go looking on ubuntuforums.

[waynehoskins]

or sudo apt-get install wine

It's pretty simple, but moderately elusive. There will be a new subcategory in your Applications menu named Wine, and there's a configuration widget in there.

[tedanderson]

At some point I am going to learn how to use those commands and get understand on exactly what they do. I actually connected my Ubutu box to the internet and I was able to install wine via their software update system. One thing that I also realize is that I will just have to simply dedicate some time to learning Linux. Up to this point I have been seeking instant answers to my issues but I really need to know what I am doing so joining the Ubuntu forums is definately a good idea.

[Tony Kanago]

Ted,

Apt is a system through which your computer can download software and have it automatically installed and configured. Basically, you have a file at /etc/apt/sources-list that defines all the places to look for software. They can use either the install systems 'Deb' or 'Rpm.' (Meaning, RedHat sources will work.) Your computer holds a cache of the software available to you given by this file and those sources (called repositories.)

To generate this cache, use the command 'apt-get update' as root or under sudo. If there is an error in your sources, this command will tell you. To upgrade your distribution of Linux, you can use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. To upgrade all the software on your system, you can do 'apt-get upgrade.'

To install and uninstall software, use 'apt-get install <software>' and 'apt-get remove <software>' respectively. It's pretty easy to do. In this case, 'sudo apt-get install wine' would get you the Wine wrapper installed and configured.