wine on startup saying just that: Wine cannot find the FreeType font library. To enable Wine to use TrueType fonts please install a version of FreeType greater than or equal to 2.0.5. http://www.freetype.org Building font metrics. This may take some time... #and make X use 99% of CPU ... while not doing anything else for hours #i got libfreetype 2.0.9 (woody stable) installed and wine not hang - it responds to ^C 'Wine failed with code 1'