194. Wine 1.4.1 and Wine 1.5.6 on Debian Wheezy

UPDATE 16 May 2013: See here for Wine 1.5.30: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/416-wine-1530-in-chroot.html

There's great appetite for anything wine-related in Debian, as I can see from visitor numbers, so  here's how to build  Wine 1.4.1 and Wine 1.5.6 in Debian Testing/Wheezy. Enough talking -- let's get compilin'!

The builds take a little while, so be warned. Not all features are enabled in this particular build either -- see the configure output.

If you're interested in the missing development files seen below, this post might help: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/cross-compiling-eg-32-bit-binaries-on.html. Instinctively, I am suspicious as to whether that would work. I haven't explored it though, and my chief motivation is to make build instructions which anyone can easily follow and reproduce.

UPDATE (10th Jan 2013): See here for Wine 1.5.21 using the multiarch approach: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/308-compiling-wine-1521-on-debian.html

For both
sudo apt-get install bison flex gcc libc6-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype6-dev libglu-dev libgsm1-dev libice-dev libjpeg-dev libldap-dev libmpg123-dev libncurses5-dev libopenal-dev libpng-dev libsm-dev libssl-dev libusb-dev libx11-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxslt-dev libxt-dev libxxf86vm-dev make libcapi20-dev liblcms-dev libsane-dev libhal-dev libdbus-1-dev valgrind prelink libcups2-dev opencl-dev lib32opencl1 oss4-dev gettext lib32v4l-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32asound2-dev lib32z-dev ia32-libs-dev


Version 1.4.1

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.4.1.tar.bz2

tar xvf wine-1.4.1.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.4.1/
./configure

configure: OpenCL 32-bit development files not found, OpenCL won't be supported.
configure: gstreamer-0.10 base plugins 32-bit development files not found, gstreamer support disabled
configure: libgsm 32-bit development files not found, gsm 06.10 codec won't be supported.
configure: libtiff 32-bit development files not found, TIFF won't be supported.
configure: WARNING: libjpeg 32-bit development files not found, JPEG won't be supported.
configure: Finished.  Do 'make' to compile Wine.

make
sudo checkinstall --install=yes

Note: To just make a .deb package, do ---install=no.

Version 1.5.6
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.5.6.tar.bz2
tar xvf wine-1.5.6.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.5.6/
./configure

configure: OpenCL 32-bit development files not found, OpenCL won't be supported.
configure: libsane 32-bit development files not found, scanners won't be supported.
configure: gstreamer-0.10 base plugins 32-bit development files not found, gstreamer support disabled
configure: libgsm 32-bit development files not found, gsm 06.10 codec won't be supported.
configure: libtiff 32-bit development files not found, TIFF won't be supported.
configure: WARNING: libjpeg 32-bit development files not found, JPEG won't be supported.
configure: Finished.  Do 'make' to compile Wine.

make

sudo checkinstall --install=yes

Note: To just make a .deb package, do ---install=no.

193. Notes on UV/VIS - TD DFT in nwchem

I've been interested in looking at using NWChem to predict UV/VIS spectra. This post doesn't show how to do it but is rather just a look at what affects the positions of absorbances.

(although it more or less just involves
tddft
       cis
       nroots 24
end
task tddft energy)

I chose benzene and water as test cases. 

Here's water:

water

Reference spectrum in gas phase: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/vibrat.html (166.5 nm) which tallies very well with 3-21g and 6-31g, but not at all with 6-31++g** or 3-21++g*.

Here's benzene:

Reference spectrum: http://www3.wooster.edu/chemistry/is/brubaker/uv/uv_spectrum.html
The reference spectrum, while a bit diffuse, shows the main absorbance at ca 178 nm. Presumably that's in benzene, not water.

More basis sets:

(cat Benzene_631g/Outputs/nwch.nwout |egrep "Root|sci"|gawk '{print $4,$6}'>bz631g.dat)

192. Skype on Debian STABLE (updated for Skype 4.x)

Update 15/6/12: New Skype (4) out this morning. Screengrabs etc posted at the end.

This post came about from a question posted on the Debian forums.

Before you read, be aware of this:

* I don't have debian 6.05 installed on any physical system. They all run debian wheezy

* This guide was done in a virtualbox installation. For sound, I used a headset and USB-passthrough. 

Having said that, there's no reason this shouldn't work.

As my system, I used the same one I used here (i.e. a very slim install):

http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/ecce-in-virtual-machine-step-by-step.html

The advantage is that it's likely to a lot more barebones than a regular desktop debian install.

The disadvantage is that I don't know what's pulled in by default by debian 6.05.

Anyway, here's what I did:

1. Download and install  skype from skype.com

I selected the Debian 5 64 bit package which is gives you the skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb file.

Install:

sudo dpkg -i skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb 

Selecting previously deselected package skype.
(Reading database ... 53724 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking skype (from skype-debian_2.2.0.35-1_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of skype:
 skype depends on lib32stdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-21); however:
  Package lib32stdc++6 is not installed.
 skype depends on lib32asound2 (>> 1.0.14); however:
  Package lib32asound2 is not installed.
 skype depends on ia32-libs; however:
  Package ia32-libs is not installed.
 skype depends on lib32gcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21+ia32.libs.1.19); however:
  Package lib32gcc1 is not installed.
 skype depends on ia32-libs-gtk; however:
  Package ia32-libs-gtk is not installed.
dpkg: error processing skype (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 skype

That's fine. Now fix the dependencies:

sudo apt-get install -f

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree    
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5
  lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libv4l-0
Suggested packages:
  lib32asound2-plugins
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk lib32asound2 lib32bz2-1.0 lib32gcc1 lib32ncurses5
  lib32stdc++6 lib32v4l-0 lib32z1 libv4l-0
0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 50.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 123 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 

2. Get sounds organised

aptitude search pulseaudio|grep ^i

i A libpulse0                       - PulseAudio client libraries 

Not enough. Need. More. Packages.

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-esound-compat pulseaudio-module-gconf

sudo apt-get install gnome-core

Obviously, if you have gnome installed, skip the second line.

Sort out your ~/.asoundrc file

echo "pcm.!default.type pulse">>~/.asoundrc

echo "ctl.!default.type pulse">>~/.asoundrc

At this point I rebooted for good luck.

3. Putting it all together

First open your volume control to see that it 'looks right'

Start Skype

Go to options (click on the S at the bottom left).  Make sure it says pulseaudio.

Make a test sound. Make a test call. Make sure to select the correct outputs and inputs in the gnome volume control

This worked perfectly for me and took all in all ca 25 minutes with screenshots and all.

Update 15/6/2012:
Skype 4 came out today -- I downloaded and installed it and tested it in the virtual machine above. Everything works perfectly.

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