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I'm trying to install the latest WINE, and I'm reading the readme, it's telling me to do the ./configure thing but when I do I get this message

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

What am I supposed to do, and how do I fix it, I'm running Ubuntu 14.04, anything newer than this runs into some problems this is an old computer.

David Foerster
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SonicStarMan
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WineHQ has nice repositories for most Ubuntu versions.

You should install wine using the steps listed on the official documentation instead of compiling by source.

Since you want version 3.15, you should pick winehq-staging, which I use in my xenial installation without problems.

Basically the steps are:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 # if using a 64bit distribution of Ubuntu
curl -L https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Release.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-staging # staging repo for 3.15 version

In addition, maybe you would want to have also the latest version of winetricks - according to the official documentation:

cd "${HOME}/Downloads"
wget  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/local/bin/

Then you can type winetricks into a terminal to run it, for the further new versions it will guide you how to update.

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Daniele Santi
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Verify that your terminal is in the same directory as ./configure, if it is not, then bash will simply not be able to find it. Use absolute path, i.e. /path/to/file or ~/path/file, ~ is substituted by your $HOME directory.

terminal opened at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/mkspecs

If the folder is messy, verify that ./configure exists by typing ls | grep configure; to search subdirectories use recursive mode, ls -R | grep configure.

TIP: Copying file/directory from file manager and pasting it into text field (i.e. terminal, text editor, browser URL field) will produce its absolute path. To paste into terminal use shortcut shift+ctrl+v, middle mouse button or use context menu (right click).

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