getting wine to run: which version to use?
 

I recently upgraded from Slackware 9.1 to 11.0, and I'm trying to install Wine. I first built Wine 0.9.25 from source and made a package using makepkg, but when I tried to run wineprefixcreate, it just printed some error messages and said "starting debugger". I removed that package and tried the Slackware package for Wine 0.9.25 that's at winehq.com. I got the same results. I then tried the packages for versions 0.9.24 and 0.9.23 and they didn't work either.

Before Wine 0.9 came out, I would usually install each monthly build from source. Some versions worked better than others but they usually at least sort of worked without much effort. Wine 0.9 worked for me too, but I never could get any newer versions to run. I tried versions 0.9.1 through 0.9.6 or so. Some wouldn't compile, and some wouldn't work after they installed.

I'm thinking about downloading the source to Wine 0.9 and trying to make a Slackware package out of that. Searching this forum seems to indicate that other people have successfully used newer versions of Wine. Do the latest versions (like 0.9.23-25) work for anyone else? If you have Wine working, what version is it and how did you install it (from source, downloading a package, or making a package from source)?

I installed the one from linuxpackages and it works just fine

If you want to build your own package, you can use the wine.SlackBuild script at SlackBuilds.org.

Works for me - all you need to do after installpkg-ing the resulting package is to run the program which sets up your ~/.wine directory structure and configures your Wine for you.

Eric

If you have the 2.4.33.3 kernel installed, then wine versions later than 0.9.12 will not run.
This is because newer versions of wine require a kernel with NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) support.
Your options are:
Recompile your 2.4 kernel with NPTL support.
Upgrade to a 2.6 kernel that has NPTL support already included.

OK, I am using the default 2.4.33.3 kernel, so I'll look into getting a kernel with NTPL support. In the meantime, I'll try Wine 0.9.12. Slackbuilds.org looks interesting too -- I didn't know about that site.

2.718281828, I can tell you that Wine worked on Slack 10.2's 2.4.31 kernel up to version 0.9.22 (some worked better than others). I've been testing Wine for a long time now and that was the last version I tested with a 2.4 kernel. I am now running the 2.6.17.13 kernel, so I don't know if 0.9.23 or newer would work in your situation. I have been using Adam's package off of winehq.com for quite sometime now and would recommend trying his version of 0.9.22 first before changing your kernel just to get Wine to work.

MagicMan