Hi,

I reported elsewhere that the AntiX installer got removed when installing q4wine. Other users saw nothing of the kind. I now I understand better what's going on, after experimenting with AntiX on a virtual machine.

When using the Jessie repositories, I can install wine, and then q4wine, without losing the installer. However q4wine is not fully functional: I can't get it to extract icons from windows .exe's. It's not that great an issue and I could probably work around that with other tools, but it makes installing a windows application (I do need a few) a lot more cumbersome.

When using the Testing repositories, q4wine will only install after removing the AntiX installer. The reason is a dependency (of Antix Installer) on libqt4-gui. On installing q4wine, that library gets replaced by (I think) libqtgui4. When trying to reinstall the AntiX installer, synaptics states that libqt4-gui is uninstallable (and hence AntiX installer also). In this scenario q4wine does handle windows icons without problems, but there is an other small glitch: the windows minimize/maximize/close buttons in each window's title bar are incorrectly rendered (but visible, and functional).

What I don't understand is that I have the impression that the version numbers of both wine and q4wine are the same in each repository. Where, then, does the difference arise?

libqt4-gui does not exist in Debian Testing repo but libqtgui4 does (I guess it is its replacement) and the newer wine in testing is built with that library

I have built a new deb for the installer without the libqt4-gui dependency. It should appear in the testing repo soon. (32 bit only since I cannot build a 64 bit version until I return home in late September)

Thanks.