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Need help installing wine..

Hi, I'm using at Slack 11.

via the pkgtool manager, i've installed wine, but when i type into the console
"wine" or "winecfg"

i get errors, missing glibc or somethin..

Code:

wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.

      It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.

wine: creating configuration directory '/root/.wine'...

wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.

      It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.

wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x003ffd80 at address 0x609ad103 (thread 0009), starting debugger...

wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.

      It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.

wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x003ffd80 at address 0x609b0103 (thread 000b), starting debugger...

wine: glibc >= 2.3 without NPTL or TLS is not a supported combination.

      It will most likely crash. Please upgrade to a glibc with NPTL support.

err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x6000c04b

wine: wineprefixcreate failed while creating '/root/.wine'.

root@xsane:~# wine: Unhandled page fault on write access to 0x003ffd80 at address 0x609b0103 (thread 000d), starting debugger...

err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x6000c04b

err:seh:raise_exception Unhandled exception code c0000005 flags 0 addr 0x6000c04b

wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-21dncv/system.reg : No such file or directory

wineserver: could not save registry branch to /root/.wine-21dncv/user.reg : No such file or directory

:rolleyes:

This topic would get a lot more attention in the Slackware forum.

The issue is that Slackware has not updated glibc past 2.3 because it would break compatibility with kernel version 2.4. But Slackware does still include TLS and NTPL, just not in the "normal" configuration.

You can read some more about that here.

Basically, you are probably going to need to install the 2.6 kernel and headers, since WINE no longer supports kernel 2.4 (or so I hear, I have never tried). You may also need to compile your own build of WINE to make sure everything is configured properly.

It will probably be easiest to move to a 2.6.x kernel. I what to do that to get WineHQ Slackware packages later than Wine 0.9.17 to work on my system.

I don't want to wake up old threads, but is this still the case as of today?

The latest versions of wine require the NPTL (native POSIX thread library) to be enabled in the kernel. This is the case for the 2.6 kernels, but is not the case for the standard 2.4 kernels supplied on the Slackware install CDs.

Install a 2.6 kernel and download the Slackware package of wine from the WineHQ website.

As Slackware 11 is still the most recent stable release of Slackware, yes, the situation is the same. As already covered you would need to install a 2.6 kernel on Slackware 11 to use Wine.

However, Slackware -current, which is the development branch that will eventually become the next stable release of Slackware, has now dropped 2.4 all together. As of the next stable release of Slackware, 2.4 kernels will no longer be included, and we won't have problems like this anymore.