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What is wine-compholio?
=======================
The **Wine "Compholio" Edition** is a special patched version of Wine that includes both patches
written by our team directly and specific patches by third party developers that we consider
good enough for inclusion. This can be seen as a testing version in preparation for patches
to be submitted to upstream Wine - don't be surprised if you encounter additional bugs, which
are not present in regular wine, and always report such issues to us (via github), so we can
improve our fixes even further. Thanks!
Included bugfixes and improvements
----------------------------------
Wine-compholio contains fixes for the following Wine bugs:
{bugs}
Besides that the following additional changes are included:
{fixes}
How to install wine-compholio
=============================
Ready-to-use packages for wine-compholio are available for a variety of different
Linux distributions directly for download. Just follow the instructions below to
install it (and all required dependencies). After the installation, please take a
look at the next section for instructions how to use it in order to run your desired
application.
**Important:** If you already have pipelight installed on your system, there is a
good chance that you already have wine-compholio. Take a look at the next section
on how to find out if this is the case.
If your distribution is not listed below, feel free to add a feature request - if the
demand is high enough we might consider packaging it for additional distributions.
 Ubuntu / Linux Mint
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Please run the following commands from a terminal, one line after each other.
```bash
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipelight/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --install-recommends wine-compholio
```
 Arch Linux
---------------------------------------------------------------------
As a first step you have to import the key for our repository, and set the trust level
to trusted:
```bash
sudo pacman-key -r E49CC0415DC2D5CA
sudo pacman-key --lsign-key E49CC0415DC2D5CA
```
Afterwards you have to add the following lines to `/etc/pacman.conf`:
```
[compholio]
Server = http://cdn.fds-team.de/stable/arch/$arch
```
Now you can install wine-compholio directly using `pacman`:
```bash
sudo pacman -Sy wine-compholio
```
 Debian Jessie/Sid
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*(Instructions for Debian Wheezy can be found below)*
In order to install i386 packages on a 64-bit system, you have to run the following
command as a first step:
```bash
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
```
Afterwards import the key for our repository:
```bash
wget http://repos.fds-team.de/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
```
And add our repository at the end of your `/etc/apt/sources.list` file:
```
# For Debian Jessie add the following line:
deb http://cdn.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ jessie main
# For Debian Sid this one:
deb http://cdn.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ sid main
```
Afterwards update the package cache and install it:
```bash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-compholio
```
 Debian Wheezy
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
In order to install i386 packages on a 64-bit system, you have to run the following
command as a first step:
```bash
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
```
Afterwards import the key for our repository:
```bash
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/Debian_7.0/Release.key
sudo apt-key add Release.key
```
And add our repository at the end of your `/etc/apt/sources.list` file:
```
# For Debian Wheezy add the following line:
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/Debian_7.0/ ./
```
Afterwards update the package cache and install it:
```bash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine-compholio
```
 OpenSUSE
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
All the following steps have to be executed as root user. As a first step you have
to add the repository - this step depends on the openSUSE version you're using.
| openSUSE version | Path component |
| ------------------- | ----------------------- |
| openSUSE 12.2 | `/openSUSE_12.2/` |
| openSUSE 12.3 | `/openSUSE_12.3/` |
| openSUSE 13.1 | `/openSUSE_13.1/` |
| openSUSE Factory | `/openSUSE_Factory/` |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | `/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/` |
The following commandline is an example for openSUSE 13.1, for a different version
just replace the path component according to the table above:
```bash
zypper ar --refresh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/openSUSE_13.1/home:DarkPlayer:Pipelight.repo
```
Afterwards just run the following commands to install it:
```bash
zypper ref
zypper install wine-compholio
```
 Fedora
-------------------------------------------------------------------
**Warning:** In contrary to other distributions, its not possible to have both a
regular wine version and wine-compholio installed at the same time - using the
instructions below will replace your regular version. Moreover it will be installed
to `/usr/bin/wine` in contrary to `/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine`.
As a first step you have to add the repository - this step depends on the Fedora
version you're using.
| Fedora version | Patch component |
| --------------- | --------------- |
| Fedora 18 | `/Fedora_18/` |
| Fedora 19 | `/Fedora_19/` |
| Fedora 20 | `/Fedora_20/` |
The following commandline is an example for Fedora 19, for a different version just
replace the path component according to the table above:
```bash
sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/Fedora_19/home:DarkPlayer:Pipelight.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/pipelight.repo
```
Afterwards run the following command to install the package:
```bash
sudo yum install wine-compholio
```
Please note that you might run into trouble if the official Fedora package (without
compholio patches) is newer than the one from the repository above, so if something
doesn't work, always make sure that you have installed our version. To do that just
run:
```bash
/usr/bin/wine --patches
```
When you're using wine-compholio this will show to a list of all patches included, for
an unpatched version this command will fail.
 Mageia 4
---------------------------------------------------------------------
As a first step please add the key for our repository
```bash
wget http://repos.fds-team.de/Release.key
rpm --import Release.keyy
```
If you're using a 32-bit version of Mageia just add the repository for 32-bit packages:
```bash
sudo urpmi.addmedia "Compholio 32-bit" http://cdn.fds-team.de/stable/mageia/4/i586/
```
For a 64-bit version of Mageia you'll need both the 32-bit and the 64-bit repository:
```bash
sudo urpmi.addmedia "Compholio 32-bit" http://cdn.fds-team.de/stable/mageia/4/i586/
sudo urpmi.addmedia "Compholio 64-bit" http://cdn.fds-team.de/stable/mageia/4/x86_64/
```
Afterwards run the following commands to install the package:
```bash
sudo urpmi.update -a
sudo urpmi wine-compholio
```
Using wine-compholio
====================
Since we don't want to duplicate a lot of information here, we recommend to take a
look at the [official Wine FAQ](http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ) for general information
about how to use Wine. The following part will mainly concentrate on the differences
between wine and wine-compholio.
Running wine-compholio
----------------------
**Using multiple Wine versions:*** Unless you specify a special `WINEPREFIX` environment
variable, wine-compholio will use the same wineprefix `~/.wine` (in your home directory)
like regular wine. This allows you to use your already installed programs directly,
without much effort or reinstalling them. Often you have both regular wine and wine-compholio
installed at the same time, which is *absolutely no problem* - by typing in either `wine`
(=regular wine) or `/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine` you can decide, which wine version you
want to run. You can switch between versions as often as you like - just make sure that all
Windows programs have terminated before starting them with a different version.
To run wine-compholio always type `/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine`, for example:
```bash
cd ~/.wine/drive_c/<your path>/
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine game.exe
```
You also have to add `/opt/wine-compholio/bin/` when running other wine related programs,
here are some additional example:
```bash
# Initialize the wine prefix
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wineboot
# Open the wine configuration
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/winecfg
# Run winepath to convert paths
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/winepath --unix 'c:\Windows'
# Kill the running wineserver instance
/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wineserver -k
...
```
If you're an experienced user, and always want to use wine-compholio, you can also add
`/opt/wine-compholio/bin` to your bash profile. We will not go into detail here, because
such a setup has the big disadvantage, that it hides which version you're using - which
is very important for getting support or reporting bugs.
Submitting bugs
---------------
**Warning: Do not submit bug reports at bugs.winehq.org when using this version!**
If you encounter any issues, the first thing you should do is to try it with regular wine.
We're only a very small developer team, and although we would like to do that, we probably
cannot really solve all your Wine bugs. When it turns out that the official Wine version also
doesn't work, you can file a bugreport at the official [Wine bugtracker](http://bugs.winehq.org/).
Feel free to mention that you also tested with wine-compholio, but all bugreport related
information (logs, crashdumps, ...) should concentrate only on upstream wine.
If it turns out, that it works with upstream wine, but not with wine-compholio, then it
might be a regression caused by our patches. We would like you to report this issue to us,
so we can fix it in future versions. You can also report issues, when testing with upstream
Wine is impossible or it crashes with a different error (for example much earlier).
When submitting a application related bug here on github, please make sure to include at least
the following information. Generally its always a good idea to provide as much information as
possible, since this will significantly increase chances to provide support and to fix it.
1. **Which application triggers the bug**
* Application name
* Version number (if available)
* Download URL (if available)
2. **WINEPREFIX settings**
* *Recommended:* Test it in a new wine prefix, and report if this works
* Did you install any overrides? (for examples by using `winetricks`)
* Did you change any settings by running `winecfg`?
3. **Information about your wine-compholio version**
* *Recommended:* Test with regular wine, and report if this works
* Version number (`/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine --version`)
* Patches in your build (`/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine --patches`)
* Installed optional libraries (`/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine --check-libs`)