Wine install

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:29:53 PDT 2004


You do realize that version of wine is from Dec 2000, right?  That's 
ancient old.  Go to http://www.winehq.net and get something that's at 
least from year 2002.

Lee wrote:
> Finally moving away from rpms to tar.gz installs. Friend gave me a cd utility 
> disk . Wine is on the cd. I copied the file 
> /mnt/cdrom/Wine/Wine20001222.tar.gz to a user directory called 
> /homer/user/Wine. Untarred and gunzipped it with , tar -zxvf 
> /home/user/Wine/Wine-20001222.tar.gz .Apparently, successful as I get a whole 
> screen full of files which I presume are untarred. Question is how do I get 
> the thing to install and once installed what command accesses it? What 
> command and what file is used to install, and can it be directly installed 
> after untarring from the cd? Almost forgot, running Mandrake 8.0 . I don't 
> know what version of Wine I'm using as the thing was on a hodge podge of 
> utilities.

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