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Dimitrie O. Paun
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Alexandre Julliard
20 years ago
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of installing Wine.
Plus, by carefully following the instructions in this
Guide, you'll be able to gain the very best Wine
environment compatibility (instead of falling victim
to package maintainers who fail to follow some
instructions in the Wine Packagers Guide).
environment compatibility.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>
To summarize, the "best" way to install Wine is to download
Wine source code via CVS to get the newest code (which might
be unstable!). Then you could easily compile and install the
Wine files manually. The final configuration part (writing the
configuration file and setting up the drive environment) could then
be handled by WineSetupTk. All in all the best way to go,
except for the about 500MB of disk space that you'll need.
</para>
<para>
With source code archive files, you have the advantage that you're
running standard release versions, plus you can update to
newer versions via patch files that we release.
You won't have the newest code and the flexibility offered by CVS,
though.
</para>
<para>
About binary package files: not sure. There's about a zillion
reasons to not like them as much as you'd think: they may be
outdated, they may not include "everything", they are
<emphasis>not</emphasis> optimized for your particular
environment (as opposed to a source compile, which would guess
and set everything based on your system), they frequently fail
to provide a completely configured Wine environment.
On the plus side: they're pretty easy to install and they
don't take as much space as a full-blown source code compile.
But that's about it when it comes to their advantages.
So I'd say they are OK if you want to have a
<emphasis>quick</emphasis> way to have a test run of Wine, but
for prolonged Wine use, configuring the environment on your
own is probably better.
Eventually this will change (we'll probably do some packaging
efforts on our own at some time), but at the current explosive
rate of Wine development, staying as close as possible to the
actual Wine development that's going on is the way to go.
</para>
<para>
If you are running a distribution of Linux or some other
system that uses packages to keep track of installed software,
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install Wine, although it might be nice to have some minor
UNIX administrative skills. Working from the source is
covered in the Wine Developer's Guide.
The main problem with externally maintained package files is
that they lack a standard configuration method, and in fact
they often fail to configure Wine's Windows environment
properly (which is outlined in the Wine Packagers Guide).
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