okay after a multitude of tries I cannot get wine compholio to work properly under openSUSE even with using alien.
So its time to compile this and possibly host my compiled versions here, but how do I compile wine under opensuse.
I want to use the netflix workaround, and the native wine doesdnt cover that.
The only package that is a rpm is an outdated verison and again under alien it simply wont work.
so I want to compile wine, such a pain but maybe I can help others who want netflix on linux to work by doing this.
Instructions are needed please.
We don’t know your experience with compiling, or the openSUSE environment, so you may get a range of answers, but this may be of help to start with
I have very little compiling experience, as in next to nil.
Also is there a metapackage or something for all this?
That page you linked suggests a **** load of things it wants.
Yes, compiling is not a trivial exercise.
I know a little about netflix (it’s not available in NZ), but in an effort to assist you, I installed the ‘netflix-desktop’ RPM from here:
netflix-desktop-0.2.1-4.noarch RPM
One has to take care with installing packages that are not openSUSE-specific, but in this case all should be ok. (I had a quick look at the files contained). It mentions
Netflix Desktop provides a convient tool that downloads and installs all of the components necessary to run Netflix Watch Instantly under Wine, including the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight v4. This package also includes some convience settings to integrate Netflix into Firefox in such a way that everything feels like a native Ubuntu application.
Let your package manager install it. It did complain about the ttmkfdir (package containing TrueType font utility) being missing, but I ignored that dependency and proceeded with installing netflix-desktop. Then, from a terminal window, I launched it with
netflix-desktop
During the installation, several items were installed automatically, including mono. When completed, the widows ‘firefox’ launched with the netflix page displayed. Of course, I get ’
Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country yet.’
I hope this works for you. 
To compile wine from source you need to download the latest wine version and then run the following commands:
- open the terminal and unzip the archive running tar xvf archive.bz2
- navigate to the folder created after the unzip
- run ./configure - i suggest you have yast software management opened to install ALL the missing packages that i needs including the devel packages . Run ./configure until no errors about missing libraries appear
- if all is ok with ./configure run make and you wait until the program gets compiled somewhere between 30-45 minutes more or less, that depends upon your PC`s configuration
- to install wine after is compiled run make install . After wine gets installed DONT DELETE THE FOLDER, keep it close you never know when you need to uninstall in order to upgrade to a newer version
- to uninstall wine just run make uninstall inside the same folder where you compiled the program in the first place
Yes but there are a lot of pagages I need I see, I am using 64bit opensuse 12.2
Your choice: Make the effort to install what is required and compile, or you could try the RPM I linked to, and use that approach instead. YMMV.
Having compiled and installed several of the wine-compholio packages myself, I will add the following:
- Use the process described above, but you need to issue the commands **make install **and **make uninstall **as root.
- Whatever packages that ./configure says are missing are the “xxx-devel-32bit” ones. I found it helpful open yast Software Management and search for "devel-32bit" and then select those listed at the end of the ./configure process. Many of these can be ignored, however. When I compiled it, ./configure continued to report the following missing packages and it compiled and worked fine:
configure: OpenCL 32-bit development files not found, OpenCL won't be supported.
configure: libdbus 32-bit development files not found, no dynamic device support.
configure: libgnutls 32-bit development files not found, no schannel support.
configure: libsane 32-bit development files not found, scanners won't be supported.
configure: libv4l 32-bit development files not found.
configure: libgphoto2 32-bit development files not found, digital cameras won't be supported.
configure: liblcms 32-bit development files not found, Color Management won't be supported.
configure: gstreamer-0.10 base plugins 32-bit development files not found, gstreamer support disabled
configure: OSS sound system found but too old (OSSv4 needed), OSS won't be supported.
configure: libcapi20 32-bit development files not found, ISDN won't be supported.
configure: libcups 32-bit development files not found, CUPS won't be supported.
configure: libgsm 32-bit development files not found, gsm 06.10 codec won't be supported.
configure: libmpg123 32-bit development files not found (or too old), mp3 codec won't be supported.
configure: libopenal 32-bit development files not found (or too old), OpenAL won't be supported.
Anything other than these I would go ahead and install.
Well I still may want to compile you see.
I did figure out installing the base development pattern via yast though, and it seemed to install a lot except one thing, here is the error I get:
X 32-bit development files not found. Wine will be built
without X support, which probably isn’t what you want. You will need
to install 32-bit development packages of Xlib/Xfree86 at the very least.
Use the --without-x option if you really want this.
I cant seem to get past this part, so what do I need to install?
On 2012-12-23 15:46, MadmanRB wrote:
> I cant seem to get past this part, so what do I need to install?
It is telling you. The X 32 bit -devel packages.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
thats rather vague, there are a lot of packages like that in the repositories so what exact one do I need?
Hello?
I really like to know how to do this.
Like I said I am thinking of building packages for opensuse for everyone here, maybe even set up a repository.
I don’t have any direct experience with compiling wine, but you should consult this guide (refer openSUSE section) if you wan to build 32-bit wine on 64-bit system:
WineOn64bit - The Official Wine Wiki
The X11 devel packages can be found via your package manager. From YaST Software Management, select ‘RPM Groups’, navigate to ‘Development/Libraries/X11’, then select the required packages.
Okay, got it,
Now a new issue sadly arises:
configure: error: FreeType 32-bit development files not found. Fonts will not be built.
Use the --without-freetype option if you really want this.
so what now?
If you use the search function for ‘freetype’ in the software manager, you’ll see the following devel packages:
freetype2-devel
freetype2-devel-32bit
Install the 32 bit package as necessary. That should do the trick.
BTW, it does tell you that in the guide I linked to. Do some reading first.
problem is that I installed those and it still does nothing but complain
maybe i should use a 32bit terminal or something, perhaps it just wants to be a pain
Just a guess on my part- maybe wine expects the 32-bit libraries to be in the /usr/lib32/ tree, rather than /usr/lib/
You may have to make a link, or adjust the makefile with the correct path accordingly…
Hmm, well I guess that makes sense.
I dont know how to edit the makefile though, I dont know the first thing about source coding.
Now creating links, how can I do that?
Via the terminal that is.
On 2012-12-24 02:06, MadmanRB wrote:
>
> Hmm, well I guess that makes sense.
> I dont know how to edit the makefile though, I dont know the first
> thing about source coding.
> Now creating links, how can I do that?
> Via the terminal that is.
I’m sorry, but if you say you want to build wine for others, you have to
know all that already. I can not trust a package built by someone that
doesn’t know about these things.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4, with Evergreen, x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))
Well I got to learn somehow, all I want is tips to help me out.
Vague instructions and tidbits on a wiki are a start but I need some aid.
Once I know how I am good, I just never did this before.
Once I know how its all good.
Again I ask: how do I solve my new issue?