Written by Nick Koch

Wednesday, 02 April 2008 00:00

For those of you who use winetricks and update it on a regular basis probably want an easier method to download it and place it where you want it. I made a script which will delete the previous version located in /usr/bin/winetricks and download the new one and put it in /usr/bin

Open your favorite text editor and paste in the following lines below and then save the file in /usr/local/bin/getwinetricks and sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/getwinetricks

#!/bin/bash
sudo rm /usr/bin/winetricks
cd ~/ && wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
sudo mv winetricks /usr/bin
echo Winetricks successfully installed.
winetricks –version

To run just make a link to your desktop or call winetricks from the terminal

> getwinetricks

Enjoy!

As always, you can grab the latest winetricks from
http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
or by using the getwinetricks download script
getwinetricks script

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Stephan Sokolow 2008-09-15 04:17:30

Here's my suggested variation on that script for the following reasons:
- It puts winetricks
in /usr/local where things not provided by the package manager are supposed to go.
- It
uses -V to get the version because the content management system for this site mangles the
double dashes which prefix the long version argument.
- Its use of sudo is cleaner and, as
a side effect, it will no longer act oddly if you type `sudo getwinetricks`.

Code:



#!/bin/bash



BINPATH="/usr/local/bin/winetric ks"



if [ "$UID" != 0 ]; then

  
     sudo "$0" "$@" && "${BINPATH}" -V

else

       
rm "${BINPATH}"

       
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks "-O${BINPATH}"

        chmod
+x "${BINPATH}"

        echo Winetricks successfully installed.

fi

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Stephan Sokolow 2008-09-15 04:19:31

Ugh. Here it is again without the code tags. Apparently the code formatting for this site is
broken.

#!/bin/bash

BINPATH="/usr/local/bin/ winetricks"

if [ "$UID" != 0 ];
then
sudo "$0" "$@" && "${BINPATH}" -V
else
rm
"${BINPATH}"
wget http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks "-O${BINPATH}"
chmod
+x "${BINPATH}"
echo Winetricks successfully installed.
fi

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