I have a slackware v10.2, I want to install wine and ive already downloaded the file from winehq.com

I extracted the file and I do not know the next step. Can you help me guys installing my wine .

This site and community is a great help for me. thank you guys

Read README or INSTALL text file or Read wine user guide http://winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/index (Installation Methods chapter)

Hi w800,

There are a number of ways of installing programs in Slackware. One of the easiest is to go to http://www.linuxpackages.net/ and download the Wine package. This is a preconfigured version of Wine specially designed for easy installation under Slackware 10.2.

Once you have downloaded the file wine-0.9.7-i486-S10.2.tgz, you could use one of the following methods to install it.

1. If you use KDE, fire up KPackage, navigate to the downloaded file and install it having typed the Root password.

2. At the command line, become root, navigate to the download location and type this command: 3. Or again at the command line and as root, navigate to the download directory and type the command to start the built in package installer and uninstaller. Select the Current option and when the program finds the Wine package install it.

The advantage of using precompiled packages from LinuxPackages, as opposed to compiling a program yourself, is that they are quick and easy to install and uninstall, as much of the work has been done for you.

If you wanted to have a go at compiling the software yourself, follow the link provided by nixcraft.

Regards,

dkpw

download winetools. it is a front end for wine.u can configure wine thru this.

this is what i got after installpkg:

root@northwind:~# installpkg wine-0.9.10-i486-S10.2.tgz
Installing package wine-0.9.10-i486-S10.2...
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
Executing install script for wine-0.9.10-i486-S10.2...

root@northwind:~# ls
Desktop/ loadlin16c.txt loadlin16c.zip wine-0.9.10-i486-S10.2.tgz
root@northwind:~# wine
wine: error while loading shared libraries: libwine.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

after downloading wine tool this and executing rpm this is the dependencies:

root@northwind:~# rpm -Uvh winetools-0.9-3jo.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/bash is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
/bin/sh is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
/usr/bin/perl is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libX11.so.6 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libXext.so.6 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libXi.so.6 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libc.so.6 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libdl.so.2 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libgdk-1.2.so.0 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libglib-1.2.so.0 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libgmodule-1.2.so.0 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libgtk-1.2.so.0 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
libm.so.6 is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
wget is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo
wine is needed by winetools-0.9-3jo

use google search for the individual required packages. also from the last line it seems u havent installed wine yet or havent installed it properly. install wine first.

w800

I am not sure what auto install tool available for slack But under Debian it is apt-get and yum under Fedora. Find out auto dependencies install tool (may pkgtool command help)

hmmm... not sure why it seems so complicated, i just downloaded the slackware package from http://www.winehq.com/site/download by Adam Schreiber, became root and typed installpkg wine-0.9.10-i486-S10.2.tgz and everything was fine, afterwards i mounted the starcraft cdrom, cd to it, issued wine setup.exe and was playing SC in about 10 min, i didn't need winetools so i didn't install it.
Personally i try to stay away from linuxpackages and prefer the "official" versions from the developer, slackware packages http://slackware.it/en/pb/ or compile it from source. Hope you got it running by now.

umm it shouldn't be you should probably get a different package, winehq has a slackware pkg
remove the old package and install the one from there. when your done run winecfg and set it up

I downloaded the package from linuxpackages.net, then got/installed winetools.

Works perfect for me.

what is the version of your KDE? I will try to install the wine package again.

should I log in as a user and change to root?

I have a a starcraft installed in my /fat-c or windows C: but everytime i type (wine broodwar.exe) nothings happend.

what is the proper way?

Thank you guyz for being patient

Hi, my kde version is 3.4.2, standard Patrick Volkerding version
You only need to be root to type installpkg wine-0.9.10-i486-S10.2.tgz so log in as a regular user, open a console, become root and install wine, then become regular user again. As for running starcraft i suggest you don't try to run it from windows, better make a new install on your linux partition, your windows install will be safer. Give me some time i'll try to write a tutorial and post it asap, maybe tonight, i also don't wanna go offtopic here. Later

Thank you. Ill be posting a topic if in case I encounter a problem.


what is the command to change root to user or user to root?

Im sorry for my question maybe its very basic,

"su root"
enter password
when finished,
"exit"