Another way to do it, is run the following commands in a terminal before beginning:
sudo apt-get build-dep wine wine-dev sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts fontforge You need a lot of things, ideally. This gets you all of them. Some places say you can get by with bison and flex and the C compiler. I don't think that's really true. -----Original Message----- >From: Lei Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Apr 17, 2008 1:24 PM >To: stephen cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: installing wine into linux ubuntu > >On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:46 AM, stephen cooper ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ref. Linux Format DVD 104 April 2008 >> From: stephen cooper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> I am new to Linux. >> I have just installed Linux UBUNTU 7.1 (gutsy) onto my computer with no >> problems. >> >> I want to install wine. >> I have written the source code onto my hard disc. (using tar ) >> When I run ./configure (.tools/wineinstall) I get an error - C compiler >> cannot create executables. >> I am including the output from the config.log for wine installation below. >> >> PLEASE ADVISE ME. > >Take a look at http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for the >list of packages needed to build Wine. If you just want to use Wine, >there's packages available for Ubuntu: >http://www.winehq.org/site/download > >
