Wine in linux mint 17.3 rosa xfce

[shankle]

Installing Wine is an absolute nightmare. Been trying for hours and doing a lot of reading.
The latest Version as far as I can tell is 1.9.3. I think I have downloaded that but the
newness of the distro and lack of knowledge of the Wine install has me stumped.
I have tried wineinstall  and it doesn't work. Should I be working out of the root for this?
If so, how do I move the extracted wine folder to the root? :(

[qWord]

sudo synaptic
then select wine and install/apply change ...

[shankle]

Thank you for responding qWord.

As far as I can tell that would install Wine 1.8 instead of the latest Wine 1.9.3.

[Magnum]

Wine needs root permission to run which Puppy runs with.

Mint should have Wine in the file repositories to install directly.

I recall that Mint makes it difficult to run in root. :-(

I use Wine for running mspaint and irfanview.

Had no luck with any of my assembler programs.

You will probably have to learn to program in Linux.

[Vortex]

This article is a bit old but can give some ideas :

https://www.linux.com/community/blogs/128-desktops/805164-wine-1735-released-how-to-install-on-ubuntudebianlinux-mint

[shankle]

Thanks guys for helping.
Maybe I'll get lucky today

The problem seem to be getting deeper.
I made the mistake of starting to read the Wine User's guide
In this manual it talked about the Winelib user's guide.
In that manual it talked about the  Winemaker program.
Oh boy, Tons of reading to do......

From the little I know so far, it seems that a user can not run a Windows program that
I wrote that has been converted by wine, without having the wine program on their computer.
Or Winelib or Winemaker.  I need wine to give me a ".exe" file that a user can use.
My understanding on this is very vague.

All this agony caused by the Windows 10 threat :(

[Vortex]

Hi shankle,

Sometimes, it's better to read some articles. They can be better than manuals for quick solutions. By the way, Wine does not convert your executables.

[anta40]

Wine doesn't touch your Windows executables. It runs them as they are.
As long as they only need standard Windows DLLs, usually Wine have no problem running them :)

[shankle]

Wine is useless for what I want to do, so I consider this thread closed.