If wine is installed, it's wine binary and wineserver are used, even if wine-development is installed. The wine-development wine binary and wineserver are only used if just wine-development is installed. . If you have both wine and wine-development installed and you want to use the wine-development wine binary and wineserver, you should execute the following commands before running winetricks. Make sure to replace the * in the WINESERVER line with the appropriate directory based on your system's architecture. . export WINE=/usr/bin/wine-development export WINESERVER=/usr/lib/*/wine-development/wineserver -- Joseph Bisch , Tues, 23 Sept 2014 18:24:42 -0400 About packages in Recommends header: to use GUI progress bar, install package "zenity". To read manuals, install package "xdg-utils". If you need to cache any *.iso files with the -k option, install package "sudo" or sudo GUI "gksu". . NOTE: This package suggests installing package libwine. Some, but not all package downloads depend on restarting the wineserver which is included in libwine. . NOTE: In case you have compiled wine from sources and installed it out of dpkg(1)'s control, winetricks' depends wouldn't know about it. In that case create a "dummy wine" package to satisfy depends by using tools in "equivs" package before installing winetricks. An example: . git clone https://github.com/jaalto/project--debian-wine-dummy.git cd project--debian-wine-dummy make dpkg -i wine*.deb apt-get install winetricks -- Joseph Bisch , Tues, 02 Sept 2014 15:06:00 -0400 Wine setup / before using winetricks Most of the software is 32bit only, so if you have 64bit OS, consider setting: export WINEARCH=win32 before initializing wine; before ~/.wine is created. This prevents wine being structured as a 64-bit installation and allows winetricks to work. Refer to LP#1006909 for more information: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/winetricks/+bug/1006909 -- Jari Aalto , Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:41:13 +0300