Guild Wars on Wine/Debian

Debian packages
Wine is officially packaged by Debian. To install it, simply run:

WineHQ repository
Some people prefer the official WineHQ repositories for their Wine packages, but for most installations there shouldn't be a noticeable difference between WineHQ's packages and Debian's packages. If you want to switch to the WineHQ sources, modify your sources.list as indicated and run  before running the above command.

Binary packages for any Debian distro
Sometime on WineHQ Debian binary packages are not updated. So, if you want to download last wine release for your Debian distro (stable / testing / unstable or experimental) you can use this repository:





Simply add these lines on  and then run:



Building your own packages
The Debian packages usually have a greater lag than the Ubuntu packages. If you are not able to find any official Debian package for the latest Wine release, you can roll your own. This is also necessary if you want to apply any custom patches.


 * 1) Download the current package sources:
 * 2) Download the latest Wine source release from WineHQ.
 * 3) Assuming the source you downloaded is , run:
 * 4) Install any custom patches you need. Use the New Maintainer Guide for all patch-lore.
 * 5) Finally, run
 * 1) Install any custom patches you need. Use the New Maintainer Guide for all patch-lore.
 * 2) Finally, run
 * 1) Finally, run

If the latest sources are not any newer than the Debian or WineHQ packags, but you still want to build your own packages, you should skip steps 2 and 3, and instead add a new entry to the top of, incrementing the release number (i.e., the -X suffix).