Problem installing Wine on AMD64

[poonguzhali]

Hello,

I am trying to install wine on my AMD64 machine.. As there is no built-in package in the wine page, I followed there instructions for building wine from scratch... I got stuck up with an exception error

configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [config.status] Error 77
Build command 'cd wine-0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed

Before helping, kindly note that I have
*re-installed build-essential
*re-installed libc6-dev
*

I want to use wine to run Nortel VPN client software only (If you have got a way/amd-64 Nortel package to use Nortel VPN Client without WINE, I would be the HAPPIEST person in this world)

Here is the entire output when I tried, apt-get --build source wine

root@poonguzhali:/bin# apt-get --build source wine
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Need to get 14.4MB of source archives.
Get:1 [url]http://wine.budgetdedicated.com[/url] dapper/main wine 0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1 (dsc) [1319B]
Get:2 [url]http://wine.budgetdedicated.com[/url] dapper/main wine 0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1 (tar) [14.4MB]
Get:3 [url]http://wine.budgetdedicated.com[/url] dapper/main wine 0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1 (diff) [49.3kB]
Fetched 14.4MB in 13m35s (17.7kB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting wine in wine-0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06
dpkg-source: unpacking wine_0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06.orig.tar.gz
dpkg-source: applying ./wine_0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1.diff.gz
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is wine
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Scott Ritchie <scott@open-vote.org>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
 debian/rules clean
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
/usr/bin/make distclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/bin/wine-0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/bin/wine-0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06'
make: [clean] Error 2 (ignored)
#-/usr/bin/make -C documentation clean
dh_clean
 debian/rules build
dh_testdir
# Add here commands to configure the package.
CFLAGS="-Wall -g -O2" ./configure --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --mandir=\${prefix}/share/man --infodir=\${prefix}/share/info
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc -m32
checking for C compiler default output file name...
configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.
make: *** [config.status] Error 77
Build command 'cd wine-0.9.21~winehq0~ubuntu~6.06 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed

Please assist...

[lmilano]

Re: Problem installing Wine on AMD64

Hi

It won't compile, since wine is a compatibility layer for win32. But you can create a 32 bit environment and run it here. Please see here:

http://porg.es/blog/wine-on-ubuntu-with-amd64
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=97026

Good luck!

[poonguzhali]

Re: Problem installing Wine on AMD64

Many thanks milano..

I am in office now lol
Kindly let me go through the URLs & get back to you in the evening..

Cheers

[poonguzhali]

Re: Problem installing Wine on AMD64

Hello Milano..

Yesterday was a night mare for me .

I followed the second link which you gave that deals with installing debootstrap for a 32 bit env.

Everything went fine until i got error while installing wine on the 32 bit env. Since I noticed that i have installed gnome i386 env instead of kde (if i am familiar with), I thought I can remove gnome & install kde. And that was the disaster.. i tried

$rm -Rf /chroot/

to delete all gnome instances, then reboot the system.
I can see X-server starting normally with login screen but after providing the password I am getting the error,

"Couldn't start kstartupconfig. Check Installation"

I logged into terminal & knew that kstartupconfig is a bin file. Though without any reason i re-installed kdm & xserver pkgs, i really dont know how installation/removal of a 32 bit /chroot/ env would have affected my 64 bit env.

humm.. I have not browsed the net for resuming kstartupconfig which I am going to do now... This reply is an update for you valuable help.. Any more help regarding kstartupconfig would be grateful.

P.S: I am missing Linux basics on how to play with config files, debugging etc. If you can suggest me any book/online material to learn these, I would be very happy.

Many thanks!

[poonguzhali]

Re: Problem installing Wine on AMD64

woww.. forums say that this is due to Users/Groups ownership problem. Let me try this out today Cheers

[poonguzhali]

Re: Problem installing Wine on AMD64

Though I was forced to re-install kubuntu , got the saturation of installing wine on amd64 using the pretty straight forward howto from ubuntu wiki
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WineForAMD64

Many thanks for your help milano..

[lmilano]

Re: Problem installing Wine on AMD64

Though I was forced to re-install kubuntu  , got the saturation of installing wine on amd64 using the pretty straight forward howto from ubuntu wiki
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WineForAMD64

Many thanks for your help milano.. 

Great, thanks for letting us know ! Sorry I couldn't help when things went South, I couldn't read the forum for a few days

Cheers !

[poonguzhali]

Re: Problem installing Wine on AMD64

Hello Milano,

No problem @ all.. In Linux, the problem is only between the chair & the computer lol
our firm has got only windows nortel licenses..
i installed wine only for using Nortel VPN client... but Nortel disappointed me

Then to the height of surprise, one of my colleagues from Denmark (Long live!! ) suggested me to use kvpnc which has Cisco Support...

Followed.. Installed.. now kvpnc ROCKS!!!.. I am able to access my office machine & work from Linux.. HURRAHHHH.. i dont know how to praise these Linux CHAPS.. how could they do such amazing things without making a brand........GOSH.. they are the real creators..

Now after calling all of my friends (now its 12 midnight here ) to share the joy, i am composing this to APPLAUSE the KUBUNTU team.. LONG LIVEEEEEEEEEEE