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LaminatorX
on Saturday October 25 2014, @02:41PM
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.
A grave bug has been introduced into the "wine" package of Debian Jessie, just days before the November 5th freeze deadline. The /usr/bin/wine launch script fails with an "error: unable to find wine executable. this shouldn't happen." message.
Debian has already suffered much unrest lately over the inclusion of systemd, with threats of a fork being issued, along with the possible cancellation of the GNU/kFreeBSD port and the possible dropping of support for the SPARC architecture. After so much strife and disruption, can Debian afford to have such a serious bug affect such a critical package so soon before such a major freeze?
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Wine Fails to Launch under Debian Jessie, Just Days before the Freeze Deadline
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(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:09PM
If you don't want to wait for the source to compile to use a slackbuild, you can always use the pre-built packages available from some of the core Slackware team, like AlienBOB's packages at http://www.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ [slackware.com] or Robby Workman's at http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/ [rlworkman.net] . If you don't trust those sources (and for the record, I do but I've been using Slackware more or less since 1999, so I feel safe with them), you can always build your packages from source when you sleep. Recently I built Chromium from the slackbuild and the latest source to test a bug in the notification area (specifically, to see if it really had been fixed in the latest source release); I started it around 6pm, watched some TV and ate dinner, went to bed, and the next day it was ready.
Generally, when using slackbuilds via sbopkg, I've noticed that most simple packages compile in a matter of seconds or minutes, with some GUI apps taking about half an hour to an hour, and very few complicated packages (the aforementioned Chromium, Firefox, GIMP, etc.) taking several hours. This is on an old Core 2 Duo machine, which is my Slackware workhorse and not my main workstation, so I can afford to have it churning away at slackbuilds while I get things done on my main rig.