wine users - Oct 2006 - polite help request: Building Wine on Ubuntu / Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)

Hello Karsten,

Please can you help clarify a couple of points in your how-to guide? We are 
trying to install Wine on a 64-bit (dual core) Celeron system.

The general problem we are having is that it is not clear at what point to 
perform the "configure" or "make" commands. We have followed
your
instructions very closely, but some steps are unclear:

1) "configure will find several omissions, but a few will only be noticed
by
the 'make' steps."
-- Does this mean that we should have already run 'configure' at this
stage?
If so, on what file/s?

2) "Now add the following links that the library install does not
make:"
-- We assume that the 'make' command was executed by the 'apt-get
install'
of the various libraries: are we correct?

3) "Run configure, build and install with:"
-- well, at this point, it's really unclear where any 'configure'
file is
located, in order to execute it! We ran a full filesystem search for files 
of name "configure", but found nothing obvious.

*Please* would you very kindly help us to clarify these issues? We are very 
grateful for the  time you have already spent on this matter, and hope you 
would not mind helping us a little bit.

Yours sincerely,

Jim & Matt

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> Please can you help clarify a couple of points in your how-to guide?...
> We have followed your instructions very closely, but some steps are
unclear:
Just to let you know, this is a users alias.  There's a good chance that
none of wrote those how-to-guides.
> hope you would not mind helping us a little bit.
That said, the EASIEST way to install Wine via source is to run the wineinstall
script from
/[wine extracted tarball]/tools/wineinstall

Run it as a regular user and not as root.

Hiji

sorry... just hit the wrong key.

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:24, Jimmy Kerwood wrote:
> Hello Karsten,
>
> Please can you help clarify a couple of points in your how-to guide? We are
> trying to install Wine on a 64-bit (dual core) Celeron system.
>
> The general problem we are having is that it is not clear at what point to
> perform the "configure" or "make" commands. We have
followed your
> instructions very closely, but some steps are unclear:
I will continue here. So you installed a package created for your 
distribution, maybe from the wine repository.

The documentation you are referring to is aimed at helping you with creating 
the program from the sources. This process has already been done by the 
person who has build the package for you.

To follow the instructions you should download the sources from winehq.org 
(usually a file ended tar.gz or tar.bz2), decompress it and in the directory 
now created, you will find he configure script mentioned, that will create 
the Makefile, needed for make.

This is a very usual install for open source programs. Download the source, 
configure, make and make install. There should be general information in the 
net.
> 1) "configure will find several omissions, but a few will only be
noticed
> by the 'make' steps."
> -- Does this mean that we should have already run 'configure' at
this
> stage? If so, on what file/s?
>
> 2) "Now add the following links that the library install does not
make:"
> -- We assume that the 'make' command was executed by the
'apt-get install'
> of the various libraries: are we correct?
>
> 3) "Run configure, build and install with:"
> -- well, at this point, it's really unclear where any
'configure' file is
> located, in order to execute it! We ran a full filesystem search for files
> of name "configure", but found nothing obvious.
>
> *Please* would you very kindly help us to clarify these issues? We are very
> grateful for the  time you have already spent on this matter, and hope you
> would not mind helping us a little bit.
>
Bye,
	Jan
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Jimmy wrote:
> Please can you help clarify a couple of points in your how-to guide? We are
> trying to install Wine on a 64-bit (dual core) Celeron system.
Which guide?  Hmm, probably
http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit
right?
> 1) "configure will find several omissions, but a few will only be
noticed by
> the 'make' steps."
> -- Does this mean that we should have already run 'configure' at
this stage?
> If so, on what file/s?
No, it's just dramatic foreshadowing.
(The only place that text occurs is in the section on Ubuntu 06.06,
so I guess that's the OS you're installing on.)
> 2) "Now add the following links that the library install does not
make:"
> -- We assume that the 'make' command was executed by the
'apt-get install'
> of the various libraries: are we correct?
There is no 'make' command in the section of text you quoted.
In any case, you should add the links if they're not there.
(Or use Ubuntu 06.10, which might have this fixed already.)
> 3) "Run configure, build and install with:"
> -- well, at this point, it's really unclear where any
'configure' file is
> located, in order to execute it! We ran a full filesystem search for files
> of name "configure", but found nothing obvious.
It's in the top level of the wine source directory that you unpacked.

If you're new to building Free software from source code, you
might want to read a few tutorials, e.g.
  http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/softinstall.html

But if I were you, I would just install 32 bit Ubuntu 06.10
(as there's no real benefit to using 64 bits, and plenty of pitfalls),
and use the prebuilt wine.  See
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wine
Building wine from source is not for newbies.
- Dan

Hi,

On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:24, Jimmy Kerwood wrote:
> Hello Karsten,
>
> Please can you help clarify a couple of points in your how-to guide? We are
> trying to install Wine on a 64-bit (dual core) Celeron system.
>
> The general problem we are having is that it is not clear at what point to
> perform the "configure" or "make" commands. We have
followed your
> instructions very closely, but some steps are unclear:
there are a couple of different ways to install a program. You seem to have 
chosen number one, the way your distribution offers. "apt-get install"
will
fetch a package containing the wanted program and install it for you.
> 1) "configure will find several omissions, but a few will only be
noticed
> by the 'make' steps."
> -- Does this mean that we should have already run 'configure' at
this
> stage? If so, on what file/s?
>
> 2) "Now add the following links that the library install does not
make:"
> -- We assume that the 'make' command was executed by the
'apt-get install'
> of the various libraries: are we correct?
>
> 3) "Run configure, build and install with:"
> -- well, at this point, it's really unclear where any
'configure' file is
> located, in order to execute it! We ran a full filesystem search for files
> of name "configure", but found nothing obvious.
>
> *Please* would you very kindly help us to clarify these issues? We are very
> grateful for the  time you have already spent on this matter, and hope you
> would not mind helping us a little bit.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Jim & Matt
>
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