README.md: Add Quick install section

[jre-wine]

For #1192.

[austin987]

Lgtm, but maybe should include instructions to install it in /usr/local/bin? That way it's in $PATH and doesn't require invoking with sh /full/path

[qwertychouskie]

Honestly the quick install script should be just:

sudo curl -o /usr/local/bin/winetricks https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks

And the full install:

sudo curl --create-dirs -o /usr/local/bin/winetricks https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/winetricks
sudo curl --create-dirs -o /usr/local/share/man/man1/winetricks.1 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.1
sudo curl --create-dirs -o /usr/local/share/applications/winetricks.desktop https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.desktop
sudo curl --create-dirs -o /usr/local/share/metainfo/winetricks.appdata.xml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.appdata.xml
sudo curl --create-dirs -o /usr/local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/winetricks.svg https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.svg
sudo curl --create-dirs -o /usr/local/share/bash-completion/completions/winetricks https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Winetricks/winetricks/master/src/winetricks.bash-completion

Much simpler and more complete than the old instructions. However, curl seems to be creating the directories with drwxr-x--- as the permissions (no read for standard users), maybe one of you knows a way around this that won't complicate things a bunch.

Actually, even better, add a --self-install option to Winetricks, then the entire install would be:

wget -qO - https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/raw/master/src/winetricks | pkexec sh /dev/stdin --self-install

The --self-install function would mkdir -p the necessary directories, then download the files to their locations as above. self-install would default to /usr/local as the prefix, while e.g. self-install=/usr would use /usr as the prefix.

qwerty@qwerty-Inspiron-3520:~$ wget -qO - https://github.com/Winetricks/winetricks/raw/master/src/winetricks | pkexec sh /dev/stdin --self-install
------------------------------------------------------
unknown option --self-install
------------------------------------------------------
qwerty@qwerty-Inspiron-3520:~$ 

Let's make that option known! :)

[melroy89]

I will not advise it like this. I would first use chmod and just execute script as intended..

Suggested change

	sh winetricks
	# Make executable
	chmod +x ./winetricks
	# Run
	./winetricks

[jre-wine]

See new comment below. But thanks @melroy89

[jre-wine]

I tried to keep the instructions as easy as possible. My intended use case is for an ad-hoc usage (Personally I use the packaged Winetricks, and only if this has issues I grab a current version for one-time usage.)

• no sudo is needed for putting it in /usr/local/bin
• no chmod (wouldn't hurt, but I want to use it just once)

The suggestions for just throwing it in /usr/local/bin/ and making it executable are fine. But my point is to do it either right (packaged version or scripted install) or go with the quickest solution. /usr/local/bin is somewhere in the middle, I wouldn't do that.

In the end my main point is to get rid of some Debian bashing and other noise in the README.

[jre-wine]

Updated and added "-O winetricks" to overwrite a previously downloaded winetricks. Otherwise the new one would get a suffix and the user would execute the old one.

I'm open to both changing this to /usr/local/bin/ and/or chmod +x. Above is just my reasoning for doing it otherwise, but each solution qualifies as a "Quick install", so I have no hard opinion on this.