How To Install Wine 8 on Debian 10 and 11

Colonel Panic · 2023-03-07 19:48:01

The latest version of Wine, 8.0. was released earlier this year. Here's how to install it in Debian 11 or 10 (I'm not convinced that these instructions also work for Debian 9 as is claimed, the below the line comments suggest otherwise);

https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-in … t=cmp-true

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Colonel Panic · 2023-03-07 20:37:24

... and here's how to remove it when, for example, you've totally screwed up the fonts and can't get them back;

https://www.addictivetips.com/ubuntu-li … rom-linux/

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Sector11 · 2023-03-08 16:26:36

Colonel Panic wrote:

... and here's how to remove it when, for example, you've totally screwed up the fonts and can't get them back;

hahahahahahaha

So glad I don't need, or even want, a single MS program.

Colonel Panic · 2023-03-08 17:58:21

Sector11 wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:
... and here's how to remove it when, for example, you've totally screwed up the fonts and can't get them back;
hahahahahahaha
So glad I don't need, or even want, a single MS program.

Yeah, but it was a beginner's mistake really; I was in Portabase (which isn't available for a recent version of Linux, and yes I have checked) and wanted to change the menu font. I managed to select one which consisted entirely of symbols and had no alphanumeric characters at all (no font preview in the program to enable me to make an easy preliminary check).

So I couldn't read any of the data I'd stored or any of the program commands that would enable me to manipulate it, and I also didn't know where to look in the Registry to be able to reset the font manually to one I could actually read; hence, deleting it all was the only remaining option.

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Sector11 · 2023-03-09 11:34:54

Colonel Panic wrote:

Yeah, but it was a beginner's mistake really; ...

And right there: The story of my computer life

Glad you got it ... ummm ... fixed

Did you try again?

Colonel Panic · 2023-03-09 18:23:16

Thanks for replying Sector 11. Yes I did, and I also found that Portabase does have a preview; it's called "Sample text" and it's just below the "Name" and "Size" windows. So I'll know next time.

P.S. Just to prove a point, I'm typing this up in Textpad, an excellent text editor that so far is only available for Windows although it will run in Wine (which is how I'm using it). It's shareware and hence not free, but it's not expensive - I paid about £16 for my copy some years ago.

I could manage completely without Windows software if I absolutely had to but for me it's nice to be able to use one or two programs such as this one and Portabase, which is where Wine comes in very handy.

There's also a game called Othello, a Windows implementation of Reversi which was designed by a group of Greek computing students as far back as the 1990s, also runs under Wine and which I like to play sometimes. It has three levels of difficulty; it's very beatable at its easiest level so you can learn as you go (the medium and especially the hard level are much more of a challenge).

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Sector11 · 2023-03-10 14:06:52

WOW! I remember TextPad from the 90's when I started using it.

And "IrfanView".
- - I wish that was a Linux program, I helped beta test that back in the day when it first came out..

https://www.irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm

DeepDayze · 2023-03-10 17:12:04

Sector11 wrote:

WOW! I remember TextPad from the 90's when I started using it.
And "IrfanView".
- - I wish that was a Linux program, I helped beta test that back in the day when it first came out..
https://www.irfanview.com/main_what_is_engl.htm

I loved IrfanView on Windows and been using it for years for its great image conversion tool.

johnraff · 2023-03-11 05:16:52

I was also an IrfanView fan back in my Win98 days.

Sector11 · 2023-03-11 13:37:02

On the IrfanView site - a partial quote:

Irfan Skiljan wrote:

XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years.

So I went looking:

XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. XnView is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors. All common picture and graphics formats are supported (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2).

It has a .deb package on their site

Do I want to break Debian?

DeepDayze · 2023-03-11 15:45:17

Sector11 wrote:

On the IrfanView site - a partial quote:
Irfan Skiljan wrote:
XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years.
So I went looking:
XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. XnView is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors. All common picture and graphics formats are supported (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2).
It has a .deb package on their site
Do I want to break Debian?

I used XnView before and it's nice, and I just use the tarball (extracted into ~/bin) and not the deb. I tested the deb in a test VM though and it does not appear to break anything but taking no chances.

If there was a flatpak of IrfanView that be cool too.

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Colonel Panic · 2023-03-11 21:29:15

Winamp's a good audio file player too;

https://www.winamp.com

I agree with those who have mentioned IrfanView as well.

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jeffreyC · 2023-03-12 16:53:20

Sector11 wrote:

On the IrfanView site - a partial quote:
Irfan Skiljan wrote:
XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years.
So I went looking:
XnView MP is a versatile and powerful photo viewer, image management, image resizer. XnView is one of the most stable, easy-to-use, and comprehensive photo editors. All common picture and graphics formats are supported (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIF, WEBP, PSD, JPEG2000, OpenEXR, camera RAW, HEIC, PDF, DNG, CR2).
It has a .deb package on their site
Do I want to break Debian?

I have used their XNconvert package without trouble on MX Linux, as far as I can tell they are not Ubuntu packages.

Colonel Panic · 2023-03-13 00:11:42

Notepad++ is another very good Windows editor that runs in Wine. Notepadqq (for Linux) is very similar but doesn't have the range of plugins that Notepad++ has.

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johnraff · 2023-03-13 02:00:09

^Ah yes, another one - notepad++ used to be my regular text editor.

Sector11 · 2023-03-13 12:14:46

++ on notepad++

Sector11 · 2023-03-13 12:30:22

jeffreyC wrote:

I have used their XNconvert package without trouble on MX Linux, as far as I can tell they are not Ubuntu packages.

How can one tell if a .deb is an Ubu package or not.

It annoys me to no end when I search for something:

Search bar:

unix|linux something here

and the first page is filled with "Ubuntu" stuff.

unix|linux|debian something here

helps a little but Ubuntu thinks it is Debian and is shouting it to the world while Debian KNOWS Ubuntu is not Debian and breaks Debian.

These work though:

unix|linux something here -ubuntu

or

unix|linux|debian something here -ubuntu

Anyway that's off topic.....

unklar · 2023-03-13 13:10:36

You could install the package with apt. And, apt never lies...

:~/Downloads$ sudo apt install -s ./XnViewMP-linux-x64.deb 
[sudo] Passwort für unklar: 
Paketlisten werden gelesen… Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut… Fertig
Statusinformationen werden eingelesen… Fertig
Hinweis: »xnview« wird an Stelle von »./XnViewMP-linux-x64.deb« gewählt.
Die folgenden zusätzlichen Pakete werden installiert:
  libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin
Die folgenden NEUEN Pakete werden installiert:
  libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin xnview
0 aktualisiert, 4 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
Inst libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 (2.40.2-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (2.40.2-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin (2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1 Debian:testing [amd64])
Inst xnview (1.4.3 local-deb [amd64])
Conf libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 (2.40.2-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (2.40.2-2 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin (2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf xnview (1.4.3 local-deb [amd64])

Sector11 · 2023-03-13 13:40:01

Would an ubuntu.deb file report:

Conf libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin (2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1 Debian:testing [amd64])
Conf xnview (1.4.3 local-deb [amd64])

or

Conf libgdk-pixbuf2.0-bin (2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1 Ubuntu [amd64])
Conf xnview (1.4.3 local-deb [amd64])

Just curious.

unklar · 2023-03-13 14:15:35

I don't understand you.

Where does apt report that it is a ubuntu.deb?
The download is from the page you specified. I would install that on this system:

inxi -Sr
System:
  Host: francescoPC Kernel: 6.1.0-6-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: Openbox v: 3.6.1 Distro: BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 12 (Boron)
Repos:
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
    1: deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen.list
    1: deb https://pkg.bunsenlabs.org/debian boron main

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