Guild Wars on Wine/Debian

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1 Installation
2 See also

[edit] Installation

[edit] Debian packages

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

apt-get install -t unstable wine

[edit] 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 apt-get update before running the above command.

[edit] 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.

Download the current package sources:
% apt-get source wine
Download the latest Wine source release from WineHQ.
Assuming the source you downloaded is wine-1.1.1.tar.bz2, run:
% cd wine_0.9.44-1 # or wherever
% uupdate -u wine-1.1.1.tar.bz2
Install any custom patches you need. Use the New Maintainer Guide for all patch-lore.
Finally, run
% dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us
% cd ..
% dpkg -i wine*_1.1.1-1_*.deb # or whichever packages you want to install

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 debian/changelog, incrementing the release number (i.e., the -X suffix).