

We don’t need the ~/wineCustom folder anymore, you can delete it.

Great! Our custom version of Wine is installed. We then replace only the Wine package with our custom version. We first install all the runtime dependencies for Wine (quick and dirty version: install the Wine from the official repositories and remove it). This step can take several hours on an old machine.Īfter the new package is generated we can install it. We then compile and create a new custom package of Wine: dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -bĪnd we wait… and wait… until the compiler is done making the CPU burn and the fan spin. Now let’s grab the patch from GitHub and apply it: wget We have everything we need to compile the sources, let’s create some folder and put the Wine sources inside: mkdir ~/wineCustom & cd ~/wineCustom Sudo apt-get install build-essential fakeroot dpkg-dev devscripts
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The development libraries Wine depends on: sudo apt-get update We will download the sources of Wine 1.6.2, patch them, compile and install our new custom version of Wine.įirst let’s install some software needed to compile and package applications, as well as all You might have to adapt a bit if you’re using a different distribution or Wine version. Here is a step-by-step tutorial, I use a 32-bit Ubuntu 15.04 as an example, which ships with Wine 1.6.2. It mainly boils down to recompiling Wine with a custom patch, it should work with any Linux distribution Wine can run on. The source code of the modified version of Wine as well as the Firefox extension are both available on GitHub.įor detailed instructions about installation see below.
