Guild Wars on Wine/Debian

Warning: Running Guild Wars on a non-Windows operating system, or with any other computer which does not meet the system requirements, is completely unsupported by ArenaNet and NCSoft.

Installation

Debian packages

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

apt install wine

Alternatively you add install wine through Debian backports. You will need to modify your sources.list then run:

For Debian Stretch

apt update

apt install -t stretch-backports wine

For Debian Jessie

apt update

apt install -t jessie-backports wine

Keep in mind the release of Debian you are running, as you will need to replace the release name with what you are currently running.

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 update 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:

deb http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ stable contrib

deb http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ testing contrib

deb http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ unstable contrib

deb http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ experimental contrib

deb-src http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ stable contrib

deb-src http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ testing contrib

deb-src http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ unstable contrib

deb-src http://ansani.it/my-debian-repository/ experimental contrib

Simply add these lines on /etc/apt/sources.list and then run:

% apt-get update

% apt-get install wine

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:

   % apt-get source wine

2. Download the latest Wine source release from WineHQ.
3. Assuming the source you downloaded is wine-2.10.tar.bz2, run:

   % cd wine_0.9.44-1      # or wherever

   % uupdate -u wine-2.10.tar.bz2

4. Install any custom patches you need. Use the New Maintainer Guide for all patch-lore.
5. Finally, run

   % dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us

   % cd ..

   % dpkg -i wine*_2.10-1_*.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).

See also

• Guild Wars on Wine