[Wine] Re: audio tab crashes wine

[digimars]

digimars wrote:
> Daniel Skorka wrote:
> > digimars <kenneth.l.armstrong at us.army.mil> wrote:
> > > Ok, I checked the packages that I have installed.  I don't have
> > > amarok-arts installed nor do I have arts installed.  What else could I
> > > try?
> >
> > This is strange, because the message clearly indicates that winecfg is
> > trying to connect to aRts. Assuming that Ubuntu has dpkg, what does
> > 'dpkg -l' show?
> >
> > Daniel
>
> Thanks Daniel, I found it that way.  What I found was:
> ii  libarts1c2a    1.5.2-0ubuntu1 aRts sound system core components
> ii  libartsc0      1.5.2-0ubuntu1 aRts sound system C support library
> ii  libartsc0-dev  1.5.2-0ubuntu1 development files for the aRts sound
> system
>
> But when I went into the Synaptic Package Manager to remove
> libarts1c2a, it was going to remove my installation of Amarok itself.
> And If I was going to remove libartsc0, it wanted to delete about half
> of my multimedia programs.  If I just went into a terminal and did
> 'sudo apt-get remove libarts1c2a', would it take away amarok as well?
> And if so, would amarok use another audio library (I doubt that it
> would since it is originally built for KDE anyway).

Nevermind, going through all of the dependencies, amarok needs aRTs.
So if I take this out, I lose amarok alltogether.

Is there any plans for Wine to fix this?  Or a way for Wine to just
ignore aRTs?  And if it is such a problem, how do KDE users get by with
this?