No sound in Wine 1.5.17

Question

I am using Wine 1.5.17 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The installation was finished successfully. I clicked the audio tab to configure audio, but it says Selected driver:(None). I can't even change the driver. When I click Test Sound button no sound is heard. Here is a screenshot :

The error I got when clicking Test Sound button was:

err:ole:CoInitializeEx Attempt to change threading model of this apartment from multi-threaded to apartment threaded err:mmdevapi:DllGetClassObject Driver initialization failed err:ole:apartment_getclassobject DllGetClassObject returned error 0x80004005 err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {bcde0395-e52f-467c-8e3d-c4579291692e} could be created for context 0x1

How can I fix this sound problem ?

Answer 1

It's likely that you're missing some dependencies. Another wine user seemed to be having the same issue, and it was suggested they install the libasound2-dev package, although they were using Linux Mint, so that may or may not help.

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The following two methods I found on the Wine Wiki, on a page about building Wine, so they might not work for an already-built

The Ubuntu-specific method seems to be to run sudo apt-get build-dep wine1.5 in a terminal.

However, according to the Wine Wiki, the easiest way to install all the correct dependencies is to download and run this script as root (e.g. with sudo). (Note: To save the script, either copy paste it into a notepad, or just right-click on the link and click "Save link as".)

Then, in terminal run sudo sh ./install-wine-deps.sh.