Isn't wine most commonly used to run propriatary software?
Yep, but Wine isn't itself proprietary. It's conceivable that one might be
using Wine to run a free program that depends on the Windows API.
Of course, most people are going to use it to run proprietary Windows-only
software, but I don't think it's helpful to actively prevent people from
Try this PPA to get the latest versions:
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa
This discussion has been raised before:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/wine-even-useful-anything-other-proprietary-software
What is the output of the arch command? If it's x86_64, then you'll need to
enable multi-arch first. I also recommend you to use the latest stable
release of Wine (1.6.1), by either enabling the Wine PPA, or better,
installing PlayOnLinux.
I'm attempting to install Wine from Synaptic. It seems 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 are
all there.
1.4 proclaims to be a broken package when you select it, and 1.2 and 1.3 tell
me this: Depends: wine1.4 but it is not going to be installed.
I've attempted to manually install Wine as well, but I
I don't know much about Wine; maybe someone else will.
I can try and help you find a made-for-GNU application, that will help you do
whatever task that you would like to do. What's the task?
Wine depends on 32-bit libraries (ia32-libs), some of which are broken in
Trisquel 64-bit. See this bug report, there's a fix towards the bottom:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/8155
