Wine + openSUSE 11.0 64 bit

Caoimhin · Post by **Caoimhin** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 2:33 pm

Hi!
I'm trying to install Wine on openSUSE 11.0 64 bit version. I'm doing it throught YaST. But there's this problem: somehow it lacks libgphoto2.so.2 the whole time. I tried to download the libs and so on, but it just doesn't work.
Any clues? Help would be appreciated.

Post by **dimesio** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:02 pm

What is "it" that "just doesn't work"? If you're having trouble with YaST, ask on the openSUSE forum. The package is on the install DVD and in the oss repository.

Caoimhin · Post by **Caoimhin** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:03 pm

I can't install Wine because YaST says me that the libgphoto2.so.2 libraries are missing.

English_Mohican · Post by **English_Mohican** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 3:05 pm

I am a bit puzzled because Yast normally sets everything up very well. I compile my wine from git so Yast does not sort things out for me. However if you look in /usr/lib do you have libgphoto2.so?

I expect you to have libgphoto2.so.2 and libgphoto.so.2.3.0 but maybe not the simple .so version. If you do not have one, try copying libgphoto2.so.2 and pasting it back. When you are asked what to call it just enter libgphoto2.so

You should probably run ldconfig in a terminal window to ensure the .so file is found.

If Wine then works, the explanation is that wine looks for the .so file but OpenSuse does not set one up for the 32 bit libraries on a 64 bit system.

This is one of my hobby horses - so if I am right, please let me know.

Caoimhin · Post by **Caoimhin** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 5:41 am

YaST still says libgphoto2.so.2 is missing. I copied it several times, renamed it - nothing. Are there any tutorials on how to install wine some other way?

English_Mohican · Post by **English_Mohican** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 6:19 am

On WinHQ's home page in the menus on the left you will find GIT. This allows you to download the whole wine source and provides tools to compile and build it. This is the best way to get the latest version of wine as once you have done it once, updates are quite easy. However, that first time is pretty heavy going if you do not have all the dependancies you need and you have to figure it out and do something about it yourself. Solving the libgphoto2 problem should be easy in comparison.

Can we have another go at libgphoto2. If I use Yast, Software Management and search for libgphoto2 I get:-

libgphoto2, libgphoto2-32bit,libgphoto2-devel and libgphoto2-lang all ticked as being installed. Do you?

If not, are they listed but not ticked and what happens if you tick them and try to install them.

If they are ticked and you look in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 what do you find related to libgphoto2?

Caoimhin · Post by **Caoimhin** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 7:48 am

Okay, thanks for the help. It somehow got installed finally.
I just added some repositories, turned out that one libgphoto2 (the 32 bit one) wasn't ticked

So, thanks again, problem solved.