Is it safe yet for developers to upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04?

[Erich E. Hoover]

I know that for a while there were some packaging problems that meant that
upgrading to 12.04 made compiling 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit PC extremely
difficult.  Is this still the case?  I'd like to upgrade to the new OS
version, but I'm not willing to sacrifice the ability to build Wine in
order to do so.  Thanks in advance!

Erich Hoover
ehoover(a)mines.edu

[André Hentschel]

Am 25.06.2012 19:29, schrieb Erich E. Hoover:
> I know that for a while there were some packaging problems that meant that upgrading to 12.04 made compiling 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit PC extremely difficult.  Is this still the case?  I'd like to upgrade to the new OS version, but I'm not willing to sacrifice the ability to build Wine in order to do so.  Thanks in advance!

You should wait until Scott Ritchie gives green light here. I blindly upgraded and it was a mess, so don't hurt yourself. I'm now back at 11.04 and that's pretty comfort, i also really dislike every non-gnome2 desktop, most likely i'll switch to cinnamon desktop at some point.


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Best Regards, André Hentschel

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

André Hentschel wrote:
> Am 25.06.2012 19:29, schrieb Erich E. Hoover:
> You should wait until Scott Ritchie gives green light here. I blindly upgraded and it was a mess, so don't hurt yourself. I'm now back at 11.04 and that's pretty comfort, i also really dislike every non-gnome2 desktop, most likely i'll switch to cinnamon desktop at some point.

Ubuntu 12.04 is still buggy in general (but not crashy!). Most of the
reported bugs have not been fixed yet.

I would also recommend waiting at least for 12.04.1 before considering
it again.

[Joey Yandle]

> I know that for a while there were some packaging problems that meant
> that upgrading to 12.04 made compiling 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit PC
> extremely difficult.

I was able to patch and build 32-bit wine on 64-bit 12.04, using a
debootstrap chroot:

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebootstrapChroot/

Setting up the chroot took a couple of minutes, and was trivial to do.

However, there appears to be a bug in wine or ubuntu which prevents
SW:TOR from forking the display process, so I can't actually use wine on
12.04 to play the game I want.  But building custom wine works fine.

cheers,

Joey

[Alex Henrie]

2012/6/25 Erich E. Hoover <ehoover(a)mymail.mines.edu>:
> I know that for a while there were some packaging problems that meant that
> upgrading to 12.04 made compiling 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit PC extremely
> difficult.  Is this still the case?

I've spent several hours on this over the past few days and rewrote
the wiki page with instructions for using chroot:

http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

It seems to work fine now. Good luck!

-Alex

[Daniel Jelinski]

I don't know about compiling, but there are several other reasons to
keep waiting, listed here:
http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=15802

Regards,
Daniel

2012/6/25, Erich E. Hoover <ehoover(a)mymail.mines.edu>:
> I know that for a while there were some packaging problems that meant that
> upgrading to 12.04 made compiling 32-bit Wine on a 64-bit PC extremely
> difficult.  Is this still the case?  I'd like to upgrade to the new OS
> version, but I'm not willing to sacrifice the ability to build Wine in
> order to do so.  Thanks in advance!
>
> Erich Hoover
> ehoover(a)mines.edu