smallest possible distro with wine ?

urentity · 02-06-2009, 12:47 PM

Hi!

I wanted to have minimal distro which would only use Wine and certain windows apps on top of wine of course.

I was in distrowatch looking this up, but wine doesn't seem to be often included by default (which is what I'm looking for), or at least that search criterium does exist there (at least not easily).

I was looking forward to Damn Small Linux having it, but I checked and they don't.

Can anybody suggestion a disto that does have it (by default, I mean)?

Many thanks for suggestions.

stratotak · 02-06-2009, 01:18 PM

you can try debian..download netinstall cd..either the netinall at 140-150 megs..or bussiness cd..which is like around 50megs.Install debian and when it gets to point to choose software to install..uncheck desktop..it will install the base debian....reboot and then install a light desktop manager..Lxde is a good one.. with command aptitude install lxde then install wine...

TITiAN · 02-06-2009, 02:29 PM

i tried using wine without X a few years ago...
it worked =D (µTorrent) but it didn't dislay stuff, of course, i confirmed it with the web interface
the problem might be the dependencies, i think; they will drag in a lot of stuff you don't always need (although, wine has some seperate modules for printing etc., so it's actually economic...)