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Extracting on Linux
is there any reason you need to compile wine from source? because its alot lot simpler to just add the wine repository to your sources.list (the file apt uses to get the packages to update from) and to just install it:
follow this guide: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb
which is just the following: Adding the wine repostory to your sources.list
this is for ubuntu hardy, change for other versions of ubuntu accordingly
then installing wine (or you can use the package manager if you don't like the console)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine