Flex Install issue in Wine

Lakshmana

I have installed the Ubuntu 16.10 in the Laptop as dual boot.I am trying to install the Wine 1.9 where to install the MTS setup.exe in the laptop.
I have downloaded the Wine 1.9.deb file in .tar.bz2 where I have extracted the same in the path to install it.
But When I try to install it ask me to install the flex package.
Help me on this to run my MTS data card in the Ubuntu machine

ed@ed-desktop:~$ cd /home/ed/Desktop/wine-1.1.30
ed@ed-desktop:~/Desktop/wine-1.1.30$ ls
aclocal.m4 configure documentation LICENSE Make.rules.in tools
ANNOUNCE configure.ac fonts LICENSE.OLD programs VERSION
AUTHORS COPYING.LIB include loader README
config.log dlls libs Makefile.in server
ed@ed-desktop:~/Desktop/wine-1.1.30$ ./config
bash: ./config: No such file or directory
ed@ed-desktop:~/Desktop/wine-1.1.30$ config
bash: config: command not found
ed@ed-desktop:~/Desktop/wine-1.1.30$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
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 for the directory containing the Wine tools... $(TOPOBJDIR)
checking for flex... no
configure: error: no suitable flex found. Please install the 'flex' package.

marcinozga

Wine should be included in Ubuntu repos, you might need to enable it in Ubuntu Software Center. So entire installation should be this:

sudo apt-get install wine

Never build from sources if there is a package available in repos already.

DustinB3403

Yes, Wine is included in the default repo of Ubuntu, so installing it from sources is a bad choice, and means you have to maintain it.

Although this may not address the issue he's having with this particular EXE on Ubuntu.