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Idea #15505: Packing Winetricks

Written by DrHalan the 11 Nov 08 at 16:57. Related project: Wine. Status: New
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I think winetricks should be either a seperate package or included into the wine package

Cool would also be a GUI for it.

If you don't know what winetricks is. It is a shellscript to download for example native dlls or fonts for wine.
Tags: winetricks

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Written by DrHalan the 11 Nov 08 at 16:57.
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Squichie wrote on the 11 Nov 08 at 19:59
there is a gui for it. Winetricks isnt exactly legal, so I am not sure if it is possible.

cheesehead (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 11 Nov 08 at 21:52
Since it's not part of the Wine source, it should be a different package.

Perhaps you could contact the author and have them create a PPA for it. Or you could create a PPA for it.

Eldmannen wrote on the 12 Nov 08 at 02:13
http://wiki.winehq.org/winetricksGetting winetricks is very easy.
$ wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
$ sh winetricks corefonts

Squichie,
I don't think there is anything "not exactly legal" about Winetricks.
It is a simple shell scrips that can be used to downloads fully legal piece of software from fully legal sources.

neon wrote on the 12 Nov 08 at 02:41
this belongs on launchpad. (;

DrHalan wrote on the 12 Nov 08 at 13:45
well the package just needs to put winetricks into /bin/ thats all.

@Squichie: where is that gui?

Squichie wrote on the 12 Nov 08 at 17:37
hmmm, well when I run it from command line, I get this~
http://www.thinkingserious.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/winetricks-gui.png


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