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@mines.edu
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.
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.
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
2012/6/25 Erich E. Hoover ehoover@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
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@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@mines.edu
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