Mateusz Stachowski wrote: > There is a very neat command that will get you all the necessary packages to build Wine (or other programs): > > sudo apt-get build-dep packagename > > this will print the list of packages to install you should agree on each and everyone of those. Thanks for the suggestion, I should probably have listed the steps I'd already tried. I've done build-essential, build-dep wine1.3, and trawled through the ubuntu repos installing anything I thought might be related. I've also got ia32-libs and other misc stuff.