Origianlly posted by SpookyEddy and
jkrohn at http://www.techimo.com/ and kindly given permision
to print here Well your main option for games in WineX.
This can be downloaded in .rpm format for only $5 from
http://www.transgaming.com/ or for free by CVS. If
you opt for CVS you don't get support and it is sometimes buggy, but
it works : If you go for transgaming it is $5 a month (no minimum
time) and you can download the .rpm.
Here is a great
step-by-step of installing via CVS by SpookyEddy
Okay I got
WineX to install from CVS (free & legal). However I am having
problems running it due to conflicts with an older install. To fix
that a quick
rm -rf ~/.wine and a
rm -rf
~/.transgaming Step one:
Create a directory to put
the code in using "mkdir wine"
Step two:
Download the
WineX code via CVS.
First use
cvs
-d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex login
Next hit enter when prompted for password.
Now use
cvs -z3
-d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.winex.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/winex co
wine
This should start the download.
You will see lots
of file names start to scroll down your terminal. This took about 1
hour on my 56K line.
Step three:
Change to the newly
created wine directory with "cd wine".
Step four:
Compile the code with "./tools/wineinstall"
Step five:
You will be asked if you would like to create a local config
file, say yes.
Step six:
If you are not running windows
on the same disk you will be asked if you would like to continue
with a wine only installation, say yes.
Step seven:
Next
you will be told that some fake windows directories must be created
& asked where you would like to put them. I suggest using "/c".
Step eight:
Now the install should be complete however
you may need to add wine to your path if you don't want to change to
"/usr/local/bin" every time you want to run wine.
Step nine:
Edit "/root/.wine/config" and make sure that all your dives are
mapped to the correct location, eg "/mnt/cdrom"
You then
run programs using wine program (say for Half-Life you could use
wine hl.exe or to install a program wine /mnt/cdrom/setup.exe)
g) For anyone running an NVIDIA Card.
I suggest that
you go and download and install the drivers from NVIDIA's website.
This will give WineX a great boost :
The drivers can be found at
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux All
you have to do is download the right ones and compile.