A more exhaustive description of installing wine in general is here: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/debian-testingwheezy-64-bit-installing.html
I'm not a fan of running windows programmes on linux -- there are enough high-quality packages out there for linux to last you a life-time, and no matter how good wine is¸ the experience of running a windows program on linux is likely to be worse (if faster) than running it natively.
But like most people I'm help prisoner by my fellow co-workers who insists on dog+world using MS Office etc. Also, in spite of everything there are a few pieces of specialised software which lack linux equivalents.
UPDATE (10th Jan 2013): See here for Wine 1.5.21 using the multiarch approach: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/308-compiling-wine-1521-on-debian.html
Finally, from the point of view of easing new users off of windows and onto a real OS, wine and virtualbox fill important functions. I was myself a heavy user of both in the beginning, before learning how to use gnuplot, latex etc.
JPEG support is a PITA, but possible -- see below.
opencl -dev and lib32opencl1 require the contrib non-free repos, e.g.
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-freeUpdated: I've tried the same guide on wine 1.4-rc5
--- START HERE ---
With that out of the way, here's building wine 1.4-rc4
First, you need a whole lot of packages -- these will be installed if you've previously compiled wine according to this:
sudo apt-get install bison flex gcc libc6-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype6-dev libglu-dev libgsm1-dev libice-dev libjpeg-dev libldap-dev libmpg123-dev libncurses5-dev libopenal-dev libpng-dev libsm-dev libssl-dev libusb-dev libx11-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxslt-dev libxt-dev libxxf86vm-dev make libcapi20-dev liblcms-dev libsane-dev libhal-dev libdbus-1-dev valgrind prelink libcups2-dev opencl-dev lib32opencl1 oss4-dev gettext
sudo apt-get install lib32v4l-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32asound2-dev lib32z-dev ia32-libs-devTo enable jpeg support you are SUPPOSED TO:
First, remove existing symlinks
sudo rm /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62 /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
Then, create new ones
sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8 /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62
sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8 /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
Download the sources and expand:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.4-rc4.tar.bz2
bzip2 -d wine-1.4-rc4.tar.bz2
tar -xvf wine-1.4-rc4.tar
./configure
If you get errors, see below and here for solutions. Missing libraries are often ok -- it just means certain functionality will be missing. It's up to you what is important. If you followed the instructions above you'll have jpeg support in spite of what configure spits out.
make -j7
as usual 7 is the number of cores +1. If you have a dual core, replace 7 with 3. Parallel building is sometimes much, much faster than just using one core, sometimes not.
If you already have a version of wine installed, this is a good time to uninstall it. Then,
sudo checkinstall
builds a .deb package and installs it. It's useful if you need to uninstall in the future.
The
Copying documentation directory...
./
./VERSION
./AUTHORS
./LICENSE
./README
./ANNOUNCE
./COPYING.LIB
part takes forever. It will finish in about ten minutes or so. If the building of the debian package fails, make sure you set the version number correctly (see errors below).
aptitude show wine-1.4
Package: wine-1.4
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.4-rc4-1
Priority: extra
Section: checkinstall
Maintainer: root@beryllium
Uncompressed Size: 129 M
Description: Wine 1.4-rc4
Done.
Updated 02/03/2012:
For Wine1.4-rc5:
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/wine-1.4-rc5.tar.bz2
tar -xvf wine-1.4-rc5.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.4-rc5/
./configure
gstreamer, libgsm, libtiff, libjpeg warnings. You can ignore them.make
sudo checkinstall
List of errors:
Error:
configure: OpenCL 32-bit development files not found, OpenCL won't be supported.
Solution:
sudo apt-get install lib32opencl1 opencl-dev
Error:
configure: gstreamer-0.10 base plugins 32-bit development files not found, gstreamer support disabled
No solution:
Not the only one with this problem...I don't care enough about video to follow this up any more. Likely, an approach similar to this will work: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=5797&sid=afde9de83a98b8cb24df2bb3646930b6
Error:
configure: OSS sound system found but too old (OSSv4 needed), OSS won't be supported.
Solution:
sudo apt-get install oss4-dev
Error:
configure: libgsm 32-bit development files not found, gsm 06.10 codec won't be supported.
Solution, maybe:
I don't care too much, but there are solutions if you are desperate enough: http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=5797&sid=afde9de83a98b8cb24df2bb3646930b6
Error:
configure: libtiff 32-bit development files not found, TIFF won't be supported.
No soution:
This comes up on some boxes, but not others. Comparing the installed packages I have no idea why.
aptitude search tiff|grep dev
v libtiff-dev -
i A libtiff4-dev - Tag Image File Format (TIFF) library (old
p libtiff5-dev - Tag Image File Format library (TIFF), deve
ls /usr/lib32/libtiff* -lah
/usr/lib32/libtiff.a
/usr/lib32/libtiff.la
/usr/lib32/libtiff.so -> libtiff.so.4.3.3
/usr/lib32/libtiff.so.4 -> libtiff.so.4.3.3
/usr/lib32/libtiff.so.4.3.3
/usr/lib32/libtiffxx.a
/usr/lib32/libtiffxx.la
/usr/lib32/libtiffxx.so -> libtiffxx.so.0.0.7
Error:
configure: WARNING: gettext tools not found, translations won't be built.
Solution:
sudo apt-get install gettext
Solution:
sudo apt-get install gettext
Error:
configure: WARNING: libjpeg 32-bit development files not found, JPEG won't be supported.
Solution:
First, install
sudo apt-get install libjpeg8-dev
This pointed me here.
Here's how to check for the bug
locate libjpeg | grep 32
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.als /usr/lib32/libjpeg.* -lah
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.la
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8.0.2
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.a
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.la
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so -> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62 -> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8 -> libjpeg.so.8.0.2
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8.0.2
Yup, libjpeg.so points to v 6.2 instead of v 8 which I have installed.
According to the bug report, the cause of the error is that the header file jpeglib.h states one version, and the /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so points to another:
cat /usr/include/jpeglib.h|grep "LIB_VERSION"| grep define
#define JPEG_LIB_VERSION 80 /* Compatibility version 8.0 */
#define JPEG_LIB_VERSION_MAJOR 8
#define JPEG_LIB_VERSION_MINOR 4
FIX:
Remove existing symlinks
sudo rm /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62 /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
Create new ones
sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8 /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62
sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8 /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
ls /usr/lib32/libjpeg.* -lah now gives
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.a
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.la
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so -> libjpeg.so.62.0.0
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62 -> /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0 -> /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8 -> libjpeg.so.8.0.2
/usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.8.0.2
The error message remains on ./configure, but jpeg support is /supposed/ to work in spite of this.
Error:
Building Debian package... FAILED!
*** Failed to build the package
Do you want to see the log file? [y]:
dpkg-deb: error: parsing file '/var/tmp/tmp.Y50XUaisW0/package/DEBIAN/control' near line 7 package 'wine-1.4': error in Version string 'rc4-1': version number does not start with digit
Solution:
sudo checkinstall
This package will be built according to these values:
0 - Maintainer: [ root@beryllium ]
1 - Summary: [ Wine 1.4-rc4 ]
2 - Name: [ wine-1.4 ]
3 - Version: [ rc4 ]
4 - Release: [ 1 ]
5 - License: [ GPL ]
6 - Group: [ checkinstall ]
7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 - Source location: [ wine-1.4-rc4 ]
9 - Alternate source location: [ ]
10 - Requires: [ ]
11 - Provides: [ wine-1.4 ]
12 - Conflicts: [ ]
13 - Replaces: [ ]
Enter a number to change any of them or press ENTER to continue: 3
Enter new version:
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