Please remember that a given installation of WINE is not necessarily consistent across platforms, or even versions. The provided instructions for installing WINE on most distributions are quite lacking.
As I recall offhand, one must download the desired version directly from WineHQ by way of the following link:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/wine/files/Source/ You will need to scroll rather far down the page to find an appropriate .tar archive. Find the version you want, download it, and unpack it using your favorite archive management software into the folder of your choice. I would recommend unpacking the files directly into a new folder to prevent corruption and confusion.
If one is feeling technicallly savvy, one can begin using Git to maintain an up to date installation of WINE by way of the following page:
http://wiki.winehq.org/GitWine If it makes you feel any better, I do not use Git to maintain WINE.
If you get the source files for a particular version of WINE, you then need to open a terminal session, using your favorite shell program. If you are using Ubuntu, or some variant, several of these come installed as standard features.
In the terminal window, you will see a prompt. You should be able to type commands, such as to change which directory the terminal is focusing on (this is known as the 'working directory'). The relevant command in many terminals for such is 'cd' without the quotation marks.
Change directory to the specific folder where you unpacked the WINE files you downloaded. You may now enter in the following commands, IN ORDER, EXACTLY AS WRITTEN HERE:
- ./configure
- make depend
- make
- sudo make install
For those who are interested, the formal instructions for this portion can be found here:
https://www.winehq.org/site/docs/wineusr-guide/installing-wine-source A special note: The best way to see what packages WINE needs in order to function properly is to stop after entering in the command './configure'. The terminal should end up providing a list of packages that various components of WINE are requesting that you do not already have. Copy this list, and refer to your favorite package manager to download and install all of the relevant packages on your computer. When you are ready to continue installing WINE, simply begin the list of commands from the top again. Which means, enter the command './configure' again in the same directory, and resume with the others.
An extra special note: On some Linux systems, such as Ubuntu, if you highlight text in some form, such as with your mouse, you can use the middle button to paste the highlighted text onto another document, such as a text editor. This also works for copying text both into and out of a terminal, which would normally intercept the key strokes for copy and paste commands.
One more note: The above process is called building WINE, and will take quite some time. Make sure when you begin in earnest that you can afford to simply leave your computer running in a corner for several hours at a time as the various compilers do their magic for each step.
One last note: For those who are not familiar with it, the sudo in the last line of code above is a particular command, declaring that the computer should use more authority than it is presently using. The common term you will read for this is "Installing as Root." As I understand it, the term sudo comes from the words Switch User, Do, which are two commands commonly found together in older Unix-like systems. When you use the term sudo, you will most likely be prompted to enter your administrator passcode. When installation and compilation are both finished, you will want to exit out of the administrator mode. Frankly, I would also recommend simply restarting your machine, which is the cure to so many ills in installing and compiling code. Coincidentally, restarting your machine will include switching back to the normal user mode.
Edit: I do not recall ever having to install anything called Jet40 to run Aurora. I'm not even sure that Jet40 actually installs, even through winetricks. You absolutely DO need to install the other DLLs, and register certain other DLLs.
