Wine versions and Debian

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:38:20PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> The latest stable version of Wine is 1.2, according to this:
> 
> http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2
> 
> I am running Debian Testing.
> 
> When I run 'apt-get install wine' it says I have the latest version,
> however 'wine --version' says wine-1.1.25
> 
> I have this in my sources.list:
> 
> #Wine
> 
> deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt sid main
> 
> What am I doing wrong here?

Well it seems wine is a mess to build, which seems to be the reason
debian still hasn't got it packaged.  It needs mingw32 updates which
are not all done yet, and the 64bit wine (which 1.2 supports) requires
a 64bit mingw32 which has apparently been abandoned (so that needs work).

There are people working on it, but it looks like there won't be updated
debian packages for a while.

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Len Sorensen
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