[SOLVED] How to install Wine on Debian

joboy · 06-14-2016, 03:54 AM

Hi there,

I am running Debian Jessie 64 and wish to install Wine to run windows program, it was straight forward on Ubuntu and Mint but no so on pure Debian and LMDE, I done all updates and installed Wine on it via software manager but it won't run, what I got is the wine run time but it does nothing, I followed the wiki but without success. I also tried CrossOver and it worked, but I don't want to spend on a commerical application when I could do it for free. Could someone share with me your success story thanks !

pan64 · 06-14-2016, 04:48 AM

you gave actually no information about your problem. installing wine is quite simple, just goto www.winehq.com and check wiki: https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#Installing_Wine and/or download page: https://www.winehq.org/download and/or here: https://wiki.winehq.org/Wine_Install..._Configuration
if you have any trouble please write what have you tried and what's happened exactly.

Timothy Miller · 06-14-2016, 08:14 AM

I installed via

Code:

apt-get install wine

and it worked exactly as expected.

jefro · 06-14-2016, 04:38 PM

Pretty sure the package manager has it.

I do know that it didn't take a lot to get it working on my flash drive a while back. Might have to be a bit more broad in your install. I think I usually might add in all wine stuff. Like sudo apt-get install wine*

Habitual · 06-14-2016, 04:49 PM

Code:

sudo apt-cache search wine
sudo apt-cache show wine | grep ^Version
sudo apt-get install wine

Reference: https://wiki.debian.org/PackageManagement

joboy · 06-15-2016, 01:23 AM

Have you tried it on Debian or LMDE ? it is not as simple as with Ubuntu and Mint

pan64 · 06-15-2016, 01:33 AM

I have tried it on debian and there was no problem at all. Can you please describe what's happened?

joboy · 06-16-2016, 01:01 AM

I did apt-get install wine on Jessie (64) and there is a wine runtime entry added to Nautilus supposed for executing ms apps but it actually does nothing, but when I did the same installation to Mint/Ubuntu there is an additional program loader installed, from there I simply open the ms apps to kick start it. I did follow the wiki to install additional backports and stuffs without success, the links or detail not usable , it seems the wiki is outdated or incorrect, pls someone point me to the correct direction with valid info. thanks !

joboy · 06-21-2016, 11:08 AM

After searching the internet I found the correct link to install the backports, now I got the windows program loader to execute windows app.