Installing wine- the windows API for linux

[kasunbg]

Hey all,
I heard that package wine gives us the ability to run windows .exe applications in Kubuntu. So I tried to install and give it a try.

But I got a problem when install it. I tried it through the adept manager and it gives the following error and then the installation failed.

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The error was:
APT Error. Context:
Running dpkg,
[ /usr/bin/dpkg, --status-fd, 3, --unpack, /var/cache/apt/archives/wine_1.0.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb ],
Sup-process returned error code 1,
Error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/wine_1.0.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb : trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/widl', which is also in package wine-dev.

I don't know what to do!!!!!

A help will be much apreciated.

Thanks.

[mchuskie]

Re: Installing wine- the windows API for linux

The key part of the error is this line:

trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/widl', which is also in package wine-dev.

Try removing the package 'wine-dev' then trying again to install 'wine'.

[kasunbg]

Re: Installing wine- the windows API for linux

Thanks JamesM. It worked.

Anyway what is wine-dev package is for? isn't it needed for the proper functioning of wine??

[mchuskie]

Re: Installing wine- the windows API for linux

From "apt-cache show wine-dev"...

This package consists of the development files needed to compile programs
using wine's free version of the Microsoft Windows API.