wine for Debian
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CodeWeavers' winesetup tool is in the "winesetuptk" package.
If you don't mind the Itcl/Itk dependencies, and are in need
of user-friendly configuration, you may want to install it.

Up-to-date Debian packages of the latest Wine release are always
available at http://www.winehq.com/~ovek/ (read the APT-README
to configure it as an apt source). You may even find packages
for debian-stable there.

There are also unofficial daily builds of the Wine CVS available,
thanks to Andreas Schuldei. If you have sufficient bandwidth to
stay on the bleeding edge of Wine development, as well as the guts,
you may use these sources.list lines:
deb http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main
deb-src http://gluck.debian.org/~andreas/debian wine main

If (i.e. when) you have problems, the Wine Troubleshooting Guide
can be found at http://www.winehq.com/Trouble/

The Wine FAQ can be found at http://www.winehq.com/FAQ/

For further information and resources about Wine, refer to
http://www.winehq.com/

Update for Wine 20010112
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wine.conf is no longer recognized as a config file! There's
currently no global config file at all (though we hope to get
one again soon). I've removed /etc/wine.conf from the package,
and it should probably be deleted from your system. If you (or
your users) still don't have a ~/.wine/config, you can either
copy the old /etc/wine.conf to ~/.winerc to have Wine convert it
for you, or you can just delete it and configure wine with the
winesetup tool instead (in the winesetuptk package).

I've also enabled the winelauncher wrapper, so that when you type
"wine", then you're actually starting the winelauncher. If a
~/.wine/config doesn't exist (and you've deleted /etc/wine.conf),
then it'll automatically try to start winesetup.

Configuring Wine without Windows (without winesetup)
====================================================
You can install the registry with:

zcat /usr/share/doc/wine/winedefault.reg|regapi setValue

(this must probably be done per user for now).

If you wish, you can also copy the directory tree
at /var/lib/wine/drivec into a subdirectory under your
user, then copy /usr/share/doc/wine/config to ~/.wine/config
and adapt its [Drive C] to point to your new subdirectory.
Then you won't need special privileges to tweak your Wine
config.

Also copy /usr/share/doc/libwine/system.ini to your new
windows directory, if you have some multimedia apps that
depend on what's in it. An automatic configuration
tool that will do all this for you will be included soon,
but until then you are going to have to do these things
yourself... get the wine-doc package, or seek additional
information on http://www.winehq.com/