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commit 0fffc57d2d28f8a28e0786faf81d7d534c9d388b Author: Jens Reyer <[email protected]> Date: Thu Feb 11 17:57:59 2016 +0100 Update README.debian. Update links. Streamline line lengths, capitalization et al. Add -development information if missing, and put it in brackets. --- debian/README.debian | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-) diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian index 103d4fb..02e3b76 100644 --- a/debian/README.debian +++ b/debian/README.debian @@ -1,16 +1,13 @@ Resources ========= -If you have any problems, the Wine Troubleshooting Guide is often very useful: -http://www.winehq.com/Trouble +If you have any problems, the Wine FAQ is often very useful: +https://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ -The Wine FAQ may also be informative: -http://www.winehq.com/FAQ - -Detailed documentation about Wine and it's internals are available in the +Detailed documentation about Wine and its internals are available in the various User Guides and manpages: -http://www.winehq.org/documentation +https://www.winehq.org/documentation -For resources related to Debian wine packaging, please visit: +For resources related to Debian Wine packaging, please visit: http://pkg-wine.alioth.debian.org To participate in development and/or discussion about the Debian packages, @@ -18,15 +15,16 @@ please subscribe to the pkg-wine-party mailing list: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wine-party The Debian package repository can also be checked out with git: -$ git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-wine/wine.git +$ git clone https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wine/wine.git Or viewed online at: -http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-wine/wine.git +https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wine/wine.git Debugging ========= -Debugging information is no longer output by default. If you are interested in -more verbose debugging output, you can set the WINEDEBUG environment variable. +Debugging information is no longer output by default. If you are interested +in more verbose debugging output, you can set the WINEDEBUG environment +variable. Examples: $ WINEDEBUG=err+all wine @@ -53,11 +51,12 @@ debsnap fetches source packages by default, which you will then need to build Configuration ============= Usually everything is automatically configured, but for fine-tuning a good tool -is winecfg or winecfg-development. +is winecfg (or winecfg-development). If you need to set up Wine manually, without winecfg, you can force the creation of a ~/.wine directory by running: $ wineboot +$ wineboot-development If something goes horribly wrong, you can always completely wipe your Wine setup with "rm -rf ~/.wine". This will destroy everything you've installed, @@ -66,21 +65,30 @@ please back it up first. You can then start fresh. 32-/64-bit ========== -Most Windows binaries are 32-bit applications. You need to install wine32 or -wine32-development to run them. wine64 alone cannot do this. +Most Windows binaries are 32-bit applications. You need to install wine32 (or +wine32-development) to run them. wine64 (or wine64-development) alone cannot do +this. -On 64-bit systems you need to enable multiarch to install wine32 or -wine32-development. As root, execute e.g.: +On 64-bit systems you need to enable multiarch to install wine32 (or +wine32-development). As root, execute e.g.: # dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt update && apt install wine32 +# dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt update && apt install wine32-development -If you have wine32 and wine64 installed Wine will default to a shared 64-bit -wineprefix that runs (most) 32-bit Windows applications. +If you have wine32 and wine64 (or wine32-development and wine64-development) +installed, Wine will default to a shared 64-bit prefix that runs most 32-bit +Windows applications. -If this causes problems for an application you may create a 32-bit wineprefix -by running e.g.: +If this causes problems for an application, you may create a 32-bit prefix by +running e.g.: $ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine32" wineboot +$ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine32" wineboot-development + +You have to specify this 32-bit prefix, whenever you want to use it, e.g.: +$ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine32" wine application.exe +$ WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine32" wine-development application.exe -If you don't want 64-bit at all, just uninstall wine64. +If you don't want 64-bit at all, just uninstall wine64 (or +wine-64-development). Wine Gecko ========== @@ -89,8 +97,8 @@ Instead libwine-gecko-* packages are available in the official Debian archives, which provide Wine Gecko support. Information about which Wine Gecko should be associated with any particular -wine version is available at: -http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko +Wine version is available at: +https://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko If the right libwine-gecko-*.deb package is not currently available, you can manually extract an associated upstream WineGecko tarball to @@ -99,16 +107,14 @@ the new Debian libwine-gecko-* package that is needed. Automatically Launching Windows Executables =========================================== -You can configure wine to automatically launch Windows executables from -the command line, for example: - +You can configure Wine to automatically launch Windows executables from the +command line, for example: $ notepad.exe -To configure backend support for that, you'll need to install the -wine-binfmt package first and then execute: - +To configure backend support for that, you'll need to install the wine-binfmt +package first and then execute: $ sudo update-binfmts --import wine -This change increases the risk of inadvertently launching Windows -malware, so please make sure that you understand the security risks -before blindly setting this up. +This change increases the risk of inadvertently launching Windows malware, so +please make sure that you understand the security risks before blindly setting +this up. -- Alioth's /usr/local/bin/git-commit-notice on /srv/git.debian.org/git/pkg-wine/wine.git _______________________________________________ pkg-wine-party mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wine-party
