Re: Where does slakware 'install' wine/any binaries ?

(problems@gmail) writes:
OP wrote;
After I fetched the wine binaries/*.tgz, I created dir:/usr/wine and
expanded the wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz there.

Loki Harfagr wrote:
Why did you do it that way? The wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz file is
a Slackware package not a simple archive!

Q - what does 'installing' entail other than placing the various
executable files correctly relative to the 'main' executable ?

a few small chores like settings the correct file rights and
putting the tree in the corret place instead of unarchiving it
in whatever place we decided would be a best guess ;-)

why don't you try it?
$ rm -rf /usr/wine
$ installpkg .../wine-0.9.49-i486-1kjz.tgz

Because I don't want to be married to Slakware any more
than to Micro$hit.

This is such nonsense.

People are "tied" to something because they don't want to
fuss with anything, they don't want to do a little bit of
searching, they don't want to do anything.

Your dependency is of your own making.

man installpkg will give you some hints.

Doing a search for what makes up a Slackware package will
also give you clues. Look in /var/log/packages and you'll
see a description of each package that has to come from somewhere.
Figure out where, and there you go.

ANd when in doubt, try it. Learn enough to be safe, and then try
things and learn from the mistakes. Seeing what something actually
does is far stronger than seeing a description.

Michael

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