On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 08:44 -0500, "Troy Dawson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 06/03/2011 02:21 PM, Gerard Lally wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > very sorry for what will be to many here a couple of basic
> > questions.
> >
> > I am using the single DVD to install, not the two DVDs.
> >
> > How do I go about installing Wine on 64-bit SL 6? Do I have to
> > enable another repo during setup or afterwards?
> >
>
> Wine is part of the EPEL repository, so you need to install the epel
> repository yum repository.  You can do this during the install or
> afterwards.  I usually do it afterwards
>
>    yum install epel-release
>
> You should then be able to install wine as you would install any other
> package.


Thank you very much. That's what I was looking for. I am primarily a
Slackware user and remain unfamiliar with rpm-based GNU/Linux but I am
intrigued by Scientific Linux and want to learn more.


> > And second question: is it correct to enable the 64-bit repo during
> > setup as well?
> >
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you install using the x86_64
> install DVD's, you automatically have the x86_64 repositories
> installed.

What I mean is, while running setup I have a choice of extra
repositories to enable. SL 6 is already enabled, and then there is an
option to enable SL 6 - x86_64 as well. I was wondering if this is
something I should enable in addition to the first one. I am running
SL 6 x86_64.