[cancon]

I want to install Call of Duty 4 on my linux installation, and I read the article here.

Everything worked fine until this part:

./configure –prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –enable-opengl –with-x

Where I got the following:

checking build system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type… i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.out
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables…
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking for g++… g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g… yes
checking for cpp… cpp
checking for the directory containing the Wine tools… $(TOPOBJDIR)
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
checking for X… no
checking for flex… no
configure: error: no suitable flex found. Please install the ‘flex’ package.

Then all the following commands given in the article didn't work. Any Ideas?

I also don't get what he made me download. The source files. But that doesn't mean I have wine, the program, only wine the source files, right?

I am new to linux and really confused...

[entropy_]

Hi cancon

You need to install flex. Try running (i'm assuming from your other threads that you use Ubuntu):

sudo apt-get install flex flex-dev

and then rerun ./configure–prefix=/usr –sysconfdir=/etc –enable-opengl –with-x.

What he made you download is the source code of wine. You turn the source code into the program wine by running ./configure (to prepare to compile the source code), make (to compile it into the program) and make install (to install the program)

[cancon]

Thanks a lot - I solved the problem!