http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32873
--- Comment #3 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2013-02-01 22:06:39 CST --- (In reply to comment #0)
Wine is unfortunately almost impossible to use. I first installed wine 1.2.2 from the repository. Then tried to use it to install MSOffice2003. Didn't work.
That's a really old wine version, there's been a new stable release since then, and many development releases. Try in 1.5.23.
Then I uninstalled that wine version and tried installing a newer one. Impossible. there is a link on your site to wine 1.4. When using the link to install wine, I get a cryptic message that it is "virtual". When using the link to 1.5, I get a message that it is not found.
I've now tried to locate it somewhere else on your site. Lot's of referrals, nothing useful; going in circles or to dead ends.
2 things would improve things a lot: 1: clearly state what version(s) can be used. 2: make those versions available and installable.
Those are packaging problems, report them to your distribution.