Commit 4d35cd2d authored by Ivan Leo Murray-Smith's avatar Ivan Leo Murray-Smith Committed by Alexandre Julliard

We now have official packages.

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They install everything else that's needed for their
operation, they usually preconfigure a lot, and you
don't need to worry about compiling anything or so.
However, the Wine Team doesn't have "official" packages.
All Wine packages are being offered by external groups,
with often slightly inaccurate or quite inaccurate Wine
environment setup.
Also, a package you downloaded might turn out to be
partially incompatible with your particular system
configuration.
Thus it might actually be <emphasis>better</emphasis>
to compile Wine from source and completely install it
on your own, by following the instructions in this
Guide.
You can get the official wine packages from
<ulink url="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6241">
the sourceforge.net Wine download page</ulink>
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and even from different versions of the same distribution.
Often a package will only work on the distribution which it
has been compiled for. We'll cover
<link linkend="getting-dist-debian">Debian Linux</link>,
<link linkend="getting-dist-debian">Debian Linux</link>,
<link linkend="getting-dist-linux">Red Hat, Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware Linux</link>,
<link linkend="getting-freebsd">FreeBSD</link>, and
<link linkend="getting-other">other</link> distributions.
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Wine files), either to use the most recent code possible or to
improve it, then the first thing to do is to obtain a copy of
the source code. We'll cover how to retrieve and compile the
official source releases from the <link
linkend="getting-source-ftp">FTP archives</link>, and also how
source releases from the <link
linkend="getting-source">official archives</link>, and also how
to get the cutting edge up-to-the-minute fresh Wine source code
from <link linkend="getting-source-cvs">CVS (Concurrent Versions
System)</link>.
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patch</link> and revert it if it doesn't work.
</para>
<sect2 id="getting-source-ftp">
<title>Getting Wine Source Code from an FTP Archive</title>
<sect2 id="getting-source">
<title>Getting Wine Source Code from the official archives</title>
<para>
The safest way to grab the source is from one of the official
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<sect2 id="getting-source-cvs">
<title>Getting Wine Source Code from CVS</title>
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<para>
This part is intended to be quick and easy, showing the bare minimum
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