wine users - Apr 2010 - configure: error: FreeType development files not found.

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>hellork wrote:
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>> vijay wrote:
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>> > vitamin wrote:
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>> > > vijay wrote:
>> > > > So how to get the development files?
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>> > > Code:
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>> > > sudo you install freetype-devel.i386
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>> > > And so on for all the missing dependencies. See
http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for the list of them.
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>> > That really helped me out :)
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>> > i installed all the depedencies,but now another error pops out...
>> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libXext.so when
searching for -lXext
>> > /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib64/libXext.so when
searching for -lXext
>> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXext
>> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> > winegcc: gcc failed
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>> > Is this due to the incompatible version?if so where to get the
right one?
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>> > the release i am using is 2.6.18-164.e15,
>> > and my machine is x86_64
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>> > please excuse my ignorance...
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>> >  [Embarassed]  [Embarassed] 
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>> > Thanks!
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>> You have the 64 bit development packages for libXext. You need the 32
bit ones for wine.
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>That was good,succesfully installed,thanks!
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>but when i give a wine command,i get not found...
>bash: wine: command not found
>[root at localhost ~]# whereis wine
>wine:
>ans nothing else comes....
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which wine shows what?

It might be possible that wine did not install because you did not run

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sudo make install

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or the files were installed to directories not in your PATH.

James McKenzie