also adding i am running x64 Ubuntu 10.4 and have never compiled anything in my life, getting error following your instructions checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no 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 whether gcc -m32 works... no configure: error: Cannot build a 32-bit program, you need to install 32-bit development libraries. So looked up how to make 32 bit wine under X64 and did sudo apt-get build-dep wine And got error The following packages have unmet dependencies: lib32ncurses5-dev: Depends: lib32c-dev lib32z1-dev: Depends: lib32c-dev libsane-dev: Depends: libsane (= 1.0.20-13ubuntu2) but 1.0.21-0ubuntu1 is to be installed this is why i like the package installer :(