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