I'm currently using Kanotix 2005.04, 32 bit. However, according to my own experience and the info on wine's bug list (its bug 5404), this problem is universal to all distros.

On 6/15/06, EA Durbin <ead1234@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On 6/14/06, Mike McCormack <mike@codeweavers.com> wrote:
>>hehe. If you're compiling Wine yourself, do I get $200 for telling you
>>to install the latest version of Fontforge, and make sure recent
>>freetype libraries are on your system?

Which distro are you using, and is it 64 bit or 32 bit?

I ran in to a similar problem on my 64 bit gentoo box. If you have 64 bit
linux make sure you copy freetype over to a directory containing your 32
compatibility libraries.

cp /usr/lib/libfreetype.* /emul/linux/x86/usr/lib/

./configure --x-libraries=/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib ; make clean ; make depend
; make