Help i am having no success trying to install wine i may turn to drink!

I'm not familiar with wine, other than the kind which comes in a bottle but you will need to post more details to get any help. Did you download wine form your repositories? What warning/error messages do you get when trying to install it, if any? If you don't get any messages, what exactly happens.

I a using mint cinnamon at the moment for a daily driver. I have wine installed and it is working for what I need it to do. You need to give us more information in order to help you. What have you tried and what errors did you get?

Simply install this program and run it.
For some good advice, see this Mint forum post.

I just did a quick google search and found the official Debian Wiki page as per the WineHq team..

I think that by installing the Wine binaries directly from the WineHq maintained Debian package repository would be a sane idea as it would help us to better access what is possibly wrong with the Linux Mint/Ubuntu package maintainers variant.

wilmasman,

Welcome to LQ forums.

You do not say what programs you wish to run in Wine.

It may be that Steam (or Lutris) can provide the required solution with regard to certain games.

https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-...games-on-linux

Another alternative is to run Windows within VirtualBox:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

We need to see output when you try to run something. The last 10 or 20 lines, not all the other crap wine is inclined to come out with. Run 'wine /path/to/your/program' in an xterm. And remember to escape everything. Post the last 20 lines.

Don't take wine too seriously; It is always in debug mode. Wine here appears to be having a proper hissy fit, but works perfectly. The usual issue is libraries - a 64bit wine, trying to run 32bit programs.

Also, escape everything. "Program Files (x86)" becomes "Program\ Files\ \(x86\)" if it's a totally windows filename, or "Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/" if it's unix syntax. I always use unix syntax.

isn't Qemu always recommended because of GPU passthrough ?

vinifera,

I appreciate that Qemu has the GPU passthrough facility, but that does not mean that Qemu is "always recommended".

Like many others I use VirtualBox. I have not used Qemu.

i mean for gaming only, not for "just using windows"