Installing Wine

Installing wine, the windows emulator to execute dos/Win32 programm executables (.exe) under Xandros on the ASUS EeePC can be a bit challenging- but if you follow my guide you should have it up and running in a few minutes. Do this: 1. Open the console/a terminal by pressing CTRL + ALT + T 2. Paste the code into the console window just beside $home> 3. Paste below, then ENTER: wget -q http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/387EE263.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

4. Paste below, then ENTER: sudo wget http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt/sources.list.d/etch.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/winehq.list

5. Paste below, then ENTER sudo apt-get update

6. Paste this, then ENTER sudo apt-get install wine

7. Restart the EeePC!! 8. Paste below, then ENTER winecfg

Just check the outputted info and see if everything seems okay. No action should be required. Starting a program can be done by right-clicking on the .exe and choosing “Open with…” > “wine”, just a double-click, or from the console with wine /<path>//.exe wine install explanation: 3. Fetches the hash key to correctly identify the wine apt package 4. Fetches the information about the location of the wine packages and adds them to the ../apt/sources lists 5. Rebuilds the apt-get “available packages” list now including wine 6. Tells apt-get to install wine 8. Is a utility that dies a basic init and tells you how wine is currently configurated. Note on “speicherzugriffsfehler”: If you get a strange “Speicherzugriffsfehler” when trying to execute win32 binaries using wine after the above steps, this is a hint that you skipped Step 7: “Restart your EeePC”! Wine is not yet fully installed, reboot and refresh your system setup - and the error should be gone!