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since i am a newbie to linux im still learning
im trying to install wine and other things using the
$ yum install wine
but the terminal says

[texasone@localhost texasone]$ yum install wine
Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
Error - /var/cache/yum/base/header.info cannot be found
Please ask your sysadmin to update the headers on this system.

can someone tell me how to update the header

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Hi Texasone, the error message indicates that your system / kernel files are old, and you have to update them.
First, execute "yum clean all" to clean the old installation files and headers, then run "yum update" - it will update your system - that may be a long process. If this approach doesn't work for some reasons, install the kernel headers :

yum install kernel-source-`uname -r`
yum install kernel-dev-`uname -r`

or, as a last resort, find the RPM package for Wine, and execute :

rpm -Uvh the-path-to-wine.rpm
3

i am using a package of wine
i followed the instructions for install/build in the readme file and i the following commands in the terminal/prompt

[texasone@localhost ~]$ su
Password: ******
[root@localhost texasone]# /home/texasone/wine/wine-0.9.58/tools/wineinstall
WINE Installer v0.75

You're running this from the wrong directory.
Change to the Wine source's main directory and try again.

how should i go about this problem
or is there a better program for linux for using .exe files

4

okay
i just tried the "yum" command approach and i updated my headers (yum update)
now it says that i done have enough arguments

[root@localhost texasone]# yum install wine
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 910/910
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: wine
Nothing to do

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"Nothing to do" means no match for download. Use "yum install wine*" with the " * " to match them all, or go here, select a package, download it and install via "rpm -Uvh package-name.rpm"