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?

Solution 1

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

Solution 2

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.

Comments

[user61143]

Not working, probably 1.4 is the newest in official reppositories.

[enedil]

The last wine version in repositories is 1.4.1.

[phoops]

The question was quite generic thus my answer.