Re: Wine devel packages ready for testing

[Aaryaman Vasishta]

Thanks for the instructions! This will definitely help others to quickly
get up to speed with the binary packages.

How long until the cross compiled OSX packages arrive? Could you put up the
scripts on GitHub or does it have to be fully working before you do so?

Cheers,
Aaryaman

On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Michael Müller  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at WineConf we discussed about providing binary packages and the idea was
> that
> Sebastian and I take care of this, since we already build packages for Wine
> Staging. We now altered our build system to work in a more general way and
> you
> can now try out the first packages. We already tested them shortly, but
> since
> we do not use all those distros on a daily basis, we might still have
> missed
> something.
>
> Before I tell you the distribution specific installation instructions,
> first a
> more general overview about how the packages work. There are already a lot
> of
> different Wine packages out there, so our goal was to choose names which
> are
> not yet used on any system. To keep the risk of name collisions as small as
> possible, we decided for the following approach:
>
> winehq-devel
> winehq-staging
>
> These are the names of the packages which are most suitable for average
> users.
> The package will provide programs in /usr/bin (or some other
> distro-specific
> default installation path) and provide all the usual wine-specifc commands,
> like "wine", "winegcc", "wineserver", ... and so on. It will also contain
> the
> manpages, and desktop files.
>
> In the background, those packages do not really contain the binaries but
> instead pull in additional dependencies, on Debian/Ubuntu the "wine-devel"
> package and on Fedora/Mageia the "wine-development" package. Those packages
> install wine in /opt/wine-devel. On the one hand this makes clear, that its
> not a distribution provided package, as all files reside in /opt, on the
> other
> hand it gives much more flexibility. A user can now decide whether to
> install
> the winehq-devel package, which symlinks all files to their usual
> locations in
> /usr/{bin, share} etc. or whether he wants to install multiple wine
> versions
> at the same time by using the underlying wine-devel/wine-development
> package.
> Besides the possibility of having multiple wine versions installed at the
> same
> time, this way we could even ship additional dynamically linked libraries
> without messing around with the rest of the system, for example if
> distribution packages are incompatible with wine.
>
> Below are the instructions how to install those packages on various
> distributions. Executing wine --version (or /opt/wine-devel/bin/wine
> --version)
> should afterwards show 1.8rc-1. If you find any bugs, please report
> them so that we can fix them. You can also take a look at the packaging
> files
> at https://github.com/wine-compholio/wine-packaging (or send a pull
> request if
> you want to contribute with your improvements). In case everything is
> working
> fine, we should add those packages on the download page, so that more users
> can try out the release candidates for 1.8.
>
> So, as a short summary, about what is already working, and what still
> needs to
> be done:
> - We'll now be able to provide 8 Ubuntu, 8 Debian, 4 Mageia and 2
> Fedora packages per release (which means about 44 build tasks per week).
> - Fedora 23 packages are still missing, but will be added soon.
> - Crosscompiled Mac OS X packages will also be added soon.
> - Additional distributions can be added on request - but please try to
>
> contact
>   your distribution first!
>
> ---- Ubuntu ----
>
> # Add repository
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
>
> # Update packages
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel
>
> # Advanced users can instead install the wine-devel package
> # directly, in parallel to their regular Wine versions.
>
> ---- Debian ----
>
> # Enable 32 bit packages
> sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
>
> # Install key which was used to sign packages
> wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
> sudo apt-key add Release.key
>
> # Add repository to /etc/apt/sources.list or create a *.list
> # under /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ with the following content:
> deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ DISTRO main
> # with DISTRO being either wheezy, jessie, stretch or sid
>
> # Update packages
> sudo apt-get update
>
> sudo apt-get install winehq-devel
>
> # Advanced users can instead install the wine-devel package
> # directly, in parallel to their regular Wine versions.
>
> ---- Fedora ----
>
> # Currently only Fedora 22 is supported, 23 will be added soon
>
> # Add repository
> dnf config-manager --add-repo
> https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/fedora/22/winehq.repo
>
> dnf apt-get install winehq-devel
>
> # Advanced users can instead install the wine-development package
> # directly, in parallel to their regular Wine versions.
>
> ---- Mageia ----
>
> # Install key which was used to sign packages
> wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key
> sudo rpm --import Release.key
>
> # If you are using Mageia 4
> sudo urpmi.addmedia "WineHQ 32-bit"
> https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/mageia/4/i586/
>
> # If you are using 64-bit Mageia 4, also add
> sudo urpmi.addmedia "WineHQ 64-bit"
> https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/mageia/4/x86_64/
>
> # If you are using Mageia 5
> sudo urpmi.addmedia "WineHQ 32-bit"
> https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/mageia/5/i586/
>
> # If you are using 64-bit Mageia 5, also add
> sudo urpmi.addmedia "WineHQ 64-bit"
> https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/mageia/4/x86_64/
>
> sudo urpmi.update -a
> sudo urpmi winehq-devel
>
> # Advanced users can instead install the wine-development package
> # directly, in parallel to their regular Wine versions.
>
> Regards,
> Michael