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I wanted to install wine as a non root user into my home folder. but when i used ./configure it gave the output
configure: error: no suitable flex found. Please install the 'flex' package.
So I installed flex as non-root in one of my directories but still the above error message persists.
How do I make configure detect the flex I have installed?
If you want to try to install wine from a repository not from source this could help you :
It should solve your problem .
I think I found the answer. ./configure's Default search directories are the ones listed in PATH.
If one types echo $PATH a list of paths separated by colons will be printed. All that we need to do is add the new directory paths to 'PATH' so that ./configure will check in these directories also.
For example in my case I made a directory 'Install' with sub-directories 'bin','lib','include' and 'share'.
Now I use the following commands to add these directories to 'PATH'
PATH=$PATH:/install/bin:/install/lib:/install/lib:/install/share
then I run ./configure
and all is well
I had similar issues, in fact at terminal it asked me to install using below command and the OS automatically installed by downloading from the internet.
sudo apt install flex
And also it complained about missing bison, so below command installed bison too.
sudo apt install bison
