diff --git a/README b/README index f42758477dd13b22f069da76055afed488afe5e1..833c4305c95670ac3dd1108ad6aa8a96cf13259a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this will install the wine executable, the Wine man page, and a few other needed files. +Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation +first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall" +before installing. + If you want to build the documentation, you can run "make" in the documentation directory. diff --git a/tools/wineinstall b/tools/wineinstall index 9f50a31070534f1a61090329c52d98fbcab1bc3e..eb37264ce802f31f79fb87415b9ba405230cd7d6 100755 --- a/tools/wineinstall +++ b/tools/wineinstall @@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ if [ $RET -eq 0 ]; then fi fi +# check whether wine binary still available +if [ -n "`which wine`" ]; then + echo "Warning !! wine binary (still) found, which may indicate" + echo "a (conflicting) previous installation." + echo "You might want to abort and uninstall Wine first." + std_sleep +fi + # run the configure script, if necessary if [ -f config.cache ] && [ -f Makefile ] && [ Makefile -nt configure ]