how do u get wine downloaded CONFUSED????

[cowzzwoc]

i went to the website to dl wine and it was some of the most confusing gibberush i have ever seen can u give me a step by stepprocess of how u instelledd downloaded wine?!?!?!?!

[drewbie]

Have you tried the Wiki? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Wine

[cowzzwoc]

ok i have wine installed.. i think. i did the synaptic deal... now is it running or what? how do i activate it?

[bluevoodoo1]

how do i activate it?

winecfg ...to run the wine configuration and...
wine setup.exe (or something similar to install your program, must point to the path of a setup file) and...
wine .wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/YourProgram/BLAHBLAH.exe ...to run your program.

[Gimbo]

Try getting it from System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager

[handy]

WineTools is a valuable aid in setting up & improving your Wine installation, IMHO.

http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

Don't install IExplorer if you want to run DVDshrink, IE messes with DVDshrinks display somehow, making it unusable!!

[bluevoodoo1]

If you want to get the latest version of wine with Synaptic add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list (sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list)

deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/

then

sudo apt-get update

then

sudo apt-get install wine

more can be read about this here... http://www.winehq.com/site/download-deb