installing wine into linux ubuntu

[Lei Zhang]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 6:46 AM, stephen cooper
<stephencooper96 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>   ref. Linux Format DVD 104 April 2008
> From: stephen cooper (stephencooper96 at hotmail.com)
>  I am new to Linux.
> I have just installed Linux UBUNTU 7.1 (gutsy) onto my computer with no
> problems.
>
> I want to install wine.
> I have written the source code onto my hard disc. (using tar )
> When I run ./configure (.tools/wineinstall) I get an error -  C compiler
> cannot create executables.
> I am including the output from the config.log for wine installation below.
>
> PLEASE ADVISE ME.

Take a look at http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for the
list of packages needed to build Wine. If you just want to use Wine,
there's packages available for Ubuntu:
http://www.winehq.org/site/download