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The standard Wine distribution includes quite a few different executables, libraries, and configuration files. All of these must be set up properly for Wine to work well. This chapter will guide you through the necessary steps to get Wine installed on your system.
If you are running a distribution of Linux that uses packages to keep track of installed software, you may be in luck: A prepackaged version of Wine may already exist for your system. The first three sections will tell you how to find the latest Wine packages and get them installed. You should be careful, though, about mixing packages between different distributions, and even from different versions of the same distribution. Often a package will only work on the distribution it's compiled for. We'll cover Debian, Redhat, and other distributions.
If you're not lucky enough to have an available package for your operating system, or if you'd prefer a newer version of Wine than already exists as a package, you may have to download the Wine source code and compile it yourself on your own machine. Don't worry, it's not too hard to do this, especially with the many helpful tools that come with Wine. You don't need any programming experience to compile and install Wine, although it might be nice to have some minor UNIX administrative skill. We'll cover how to retrieve and compile the official source releases from the FTP archives, and also how to get the cutting edge up-to-the-minute fresh Wine source code from CVS (Concurrent Versions System). Both processes of source code installation are similar, and once you master one, you should have no trouble dealing with the other one.
Finally, you may someday need to know how to apply a source code patch to your version of Wine. Perhaps you've uncovered a bug in Wine, reported it to the Wine mailing list, and received a patch from a developer to hopefully fix the bug. The last section in this chapter will show you how to safely apply the patch and revert it if the patch doesn't work.
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