Squeezing Wine

• Download the source packages for Sid from http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/. Let's assume that you have three files now:
  • wine-unstable_1.3.24-0.2.dsc
  • wine-unstable_1.3.24-0.2.debian.tar.bz2
  • wine-unstable_1.3.24.orig.tar.bz2
• Install and set-up pbuilder:
  • apt-get install pbuilder debootstrap
  • pbuilder --create
• Compile wine and generate packages:
  • pbuilder --build wine-unstable_1.3.24-0.2.dsc Afterwards you'll have your .deb packages in /var/cache/pbuilder/result/.
  • Although those packages have been compiled specifically for your distribution, some dependencies in libwine-gphoto2-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb and libwine-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb are still wrong, i.e., requiring versions of libssl, libjpeg and libgphoto that are not available in Squeeze. You can fix that by manually editing the packages:

    ar -x libwine-gphoto2-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb
    gunzip -c control.tar.gz | tar -xv
    sed -i 's/2\.4\.10\.1/2.4.6/g' control
    tar -cvf control.tar control preinst md5sums
    gzip -f control.tar
    rm libwine-gphoto2-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb
    ar -r libwine-gphoto2-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb debian-binary \
     control.tar.gz data.tar.gz
    rm control preinst md5sums \
     debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz

    ar -x libwine-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb
    gunzip -c control.tar.gz | tar -xv
    sed -i 's/>= 8c/>= 8b/g;s/libssl1\.0\.0 (>= 1\.0\.0/libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8/g' \
     control
    tar -cvf control.tar shlibs config postinst control postrm md5sums
    gzip -f control.tar
    rm libwine-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb
    ar -r libwine-unstable_1.3.24-0.2_i386.deb debian-binary \
     control.tar.gz data.tar.gz
    rm shlibs config postinst control postrm md5sums \
     debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz

• Install wine:
  • Use your favourite package manager to uninstall your existing wine packages, if any.
  • dpkg -i /var/cache/pbuilder/result/libwine*.deb /var/cache/pbuilder/result/wine*.deb
  • Install Gecko as explained here
• Try it out:
  • winecfg
  • In my case that failed and I had to remove my .wine directory.
  • Install Office or whatever else you might need...