[Wine] "Wine cannot find the FreeType font library."

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Jul 18 19:31:59 CDT 2010


dimesio wrote:
> Babkockdood wrote:
>   
>> Whenever I try running a Windows executable thru the terminal, Wine gives me the following.
>>
>>
>> Code:
>> Wine cannot find the FreeType font library.  To enable Wine to
>> use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than
>> or equal to 2.0.5.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've tried devnulling the output but the message keeps appearing. The executable I need to use works like it's supposed to, but Wine opens X11 and gives me this message. Can someone please provide a link to this "FreeType" library?[/code]
>>     
>
> Your distro should have a package for it.
>
>   
Install the 32 bit Fontconfig library.

One question though, are you using Linux or MacOSX?

James McKenzie




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