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The Cost of Installing wine

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The following packages need to be installed if one wants or needs wine:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  attr binfmt-support cabextract cups-bsd fonts-droid fonts-horai-umefont fonts-unfonts-core fonts-wqy-microhei gcc-4.8-base:i386 gcc-4.9-base:i386
  gnome-exe-thumbnailer icoutils libaio1 libasn1-8-heimdal:i386 libasound2:i386 libasound2-plugins:i386 libasyncns0:i386 libavahi-client3:i386
  libavahi-common-data:i386 libavahi-common3:i386 libc6:i386 libcapi20-3 libcapi20-3:i386 libcgmanager0:i386 libcomerr2:i386 libcups2:i386
  libdb5.3:i386 libdbus-1-3:i386 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2:i386 libelf1:i386 libexif12:i386 libexpat1:i386
  libffi6:i386 libfile-copy-recursive-perl libflac8:i386 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libgcrypt11:i386 libgd3:i386 libgif4:i386
  libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386 libglib2.0-0:i386 libglu1-mesa:i386 libgnutls26:i386 libgpg-error0:i386
  libgphoto2-6:i386 libgphoto2-port10:i386 libgpm2:i386 libgssapi-krb5-2:i386 libgssapi3-heimdal:i386 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0:i386
  libgstreamer0.10-0:i386 libhcrypto4-heimdal:i386 libhdb9-heimdal libheimbase1-heimdal:i386 libheimntlm0-heimdal:i386 libhx509-5-heimdal:i386
  libice6:i386 libieee1284-3:i386 libjack-jackd2-0:i386 libjbig0:i386 libjpeg-turbo8:i386 libjpeg8:i386 libjson-c2:i386 libk5crypto3:i386
  libkdc2-heimdal libkeyutils1:i386 libkrb5-26-heimdal:i386 libkrb5-3:i386 libkrb5support0:i386 liblcms2-2:i386 libldap-2.4-2:i386 libllvm3.4:i386
  libltdl7:i386 liblzma5:i386 libmpg123-0 libmpg123-0:i386 libncurses5:i386 libnih-dbus1:i386 libnih1:i386 libodbc1 libogg0:i386 libopenal1:i386
  liborc-0.4-0:i386 libosmesa6 libosmesa6:i386 libp11-kit-gnome-keyring libp11-kit-gnome-keyring:i386 libp11-kit0:i386 libpciaccess0:i386 libpcre3:i386
  libpng12-0:i386 libpulse0:i386 libroken18-heimdal:i386 libsamplerate0:i386 libsane:i386 libsasl2-2:i386 libsasl2-modules:i386
  libsasl2-modules-db:i386 libselinux1:i386 libsm6:i386 libsndfile1:i386 libspeexdsp1:i386 libsqlite3-0:i386 libssl1.0.0:i386 libstdc++6:i386
  libtasn1-6:i386 libtiff5:i386 libtinfo5:i386 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0:i386 libudev1:i386 libusb-1.0-0:i386 libuuid1:i386 libv4l-0:i386 libv4lconvert0:i386
  libvorbis0a:i386 libvorbisenc2:i386 libvpx1:i386 libwind0-heimdal:i386 libwrap0:i386 libx11-6:i386 libx11-xcb1:i386 libxau6:i386 libxcb-dri2-0:i386
  libxcb-dri3-0:i386 libxcb-glx0:i386 libxcb-present0:i386 libxcb-sync1:i386 libxcb1:i386 libxcomposite1:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxdamage1:i386
  libxdmcp6:i386 libxext6:i386 libxfixes3:i386 libxi6:i386 libxinerama1:i386 libxml2:i386 libxpm4:i386 libxrandr2:i386 libxrender1:i386
  libxshmfence1:i386 libxslt1.1:i386 libxt6:i386 libxxf86vm1:i386 ocl-icd-libopencl1 ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386 odbcinst odbcinst1debian2 p11-kit-modules
  p11-kit-modules:i386 p7zip python-dnspython samba samba-dsdb-modules samba-vfs-modules tdb-tools ttf-mscorefonts-installer ttf-wqy-microhei unixodbc
  unzip update-inetd winbind wine wine-gecko2.21 wine-gecko2.21:i386 wine-mono0.0.8 wine1.6 wine1.6-amd64 wine1.6-i386:i386 winetricks zip zlib1g:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libcgmanager0 libelf1 libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libjbig0 libsane libsane-common libselinux1 libsmbclient libssl1.0.0 libtiff5 libudev1
  libwbclient0 libxml2 python-samba samba-common samba-common-bin samba-libs smbclient udev
20 upgraded, 179 newly installed, 1 to remove and 86 not upgraded.
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After this operation, 634 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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So a complete CD for this imbecile Microsoft Windows!