How to update application on Debian?

Question

When I run

 a@debianVM:~$ wine --version

I get:

wine-1.4.1

And the website says: Latest stable release: Wine 1.6.2

How to update?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 24 '14 at 20:53

Wine 1.4 is the latest official version in the debian repositories (see https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/wine).

But, you can install the sources from the wine website:

First you need to install required packages:

apt-get install flex bison qt3-dev-tools qt4-qmake

Then download the sources with wget:

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.6.tar.bz2

Unpack them:

tar -xjvf wine-1.6.*

And compile:

cd wine-1.6.*
./configure
cd tools; ./wineinstall

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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The correct way to do this is to backport Wine from unstable. This looks like it should be do-able, though perhaps not totally trivial. If you want more information on how to do this, please ask.

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36

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answered Feb 24 '14 at 22:48

Faheem Mitha

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score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 24 '14 at 20:38

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You might need to update your repository database first (this will not update any packages):

 apt-get update

Then update wine:

 apt-get install wine

To update all packages on the system:

 apt-get upgrade

answered Feb 24 '14 at 20:38

ek9

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Not working, probably 1.4 is the newest in official reppositories. – user61143 Feb 24 '14 at 20:46
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Using: http://www.fandigital.com/2012/05/install-latest-wine-in-debian-linux.html – user61143 Feb 24 '14 at 20:46
The last wine version in repositories is 1.4.1. – enedil Feb 24 '14 at 23:14
The question was quite generic thus my answer. – ek9 Feb 25 '14 at 22:11

How to update application on Debian?

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