I am familiar with compiling some programs, though I am basically a newbie (I am more use to using package managers such as apt-get, pacman, yum, etc,) I do know what I am doing. ./configure ./make ./makeinstall is usually how it goes.
So I read the readme file that came with wine 1.3.7. It stated that I could compile but it would be better to use the wine installer, ./tools/wininstaller.
So I did this as root.
Quote:
./wineinstall:
Wine Installer v1.0
You are running wineinstall as root, this is not advisable. Please rerun as a user.
Aborting.
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Ok, not an issue. I will just do it as user:
Quote:
./wineinstall
Wine Installer v1.0
We need to install Wine as the root user. Do you want us to build Wine,
'su root' and install Wine? Enter 'no' to build Wine without installing:
(yes/no)
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Talk about some mixed messages here, lol. Which one should I do?
I am using Arch 64bit, no packages for it. I tried pacman -S wine and nothing. Besides I would rather get wine installed from source anyways.