Well... wine, as far as I know, only works in x86 architectures and I run Linux in a Powerbook (ppc architecture) :-/ In any case, I will probably try and get an x86 at work and run Wine, but it is definitely a temporary solution, the good one would be having a "core downloader" (as I mentioned in my answer to scanman717) that we could compile in any architecture.

This way people could build a wrapper in any language and architecture, thus being able to have massive local repositories of tiles at home and easily (and quickly) being able to create .db files at one's will (and need )