obiwanakin wrote: > I dont have internet on my ubuntu 9.10 computer, so i download the tarballs and burn them to a disk. That's a bad idea. You should be downloading binary packages (.deb) if you using ubuntu. obiwanakin wrote: > when i unpack them and try to install them, i get an error message telling me to install flex. What is this? Why did it happen? > HELP! It's a program required to compile Wine. See all required packages here: http://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages