How to install wine-1.4 in the sid repo?

Question

I want to install the latest version of Wine in my Debian box. There is wine_1.4-0.1_i386.deb in the pool/w/wine/ directory in the Debian mirrors. I have added testing, sid repos in the sources.list file. However, the latest wine I can install is always 1.2.3-0.3.

Run apt-cache policy wine shows:

wine:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.2.3-0.3
  Version table:
     1.2.3-0.3 0
        500 http://mirrors.xxx.com/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
        500 http://mirrors.xxx.com/debian/ sid/main i386 Packages
     1.0.1-3.1 0
        500 http://mirrors.xxx.com/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

The existed version 1.4-0.1 doesn't show in any sources.

I have also tried:

sudo apt-get install wine=1.4-0.1

to install the explicit version 1.4-0.1, but still no success.

How to install wine-1.4 by force? Should I download the .deb packages manually and run sudo dpkg -i ...?

Answer 1

Just a small update, wine 1.4 is nowadays available in the sid repository - just run apt-get update and apt-get install wine.

Original answer:

Wine 1.4-0.1 is in the experimental repository. Just add it to your sources.list, run apt-get update and you should be able to install it.

Have a look at How to see package version without install? which shows rmadison to check which suite has which version available.