Fix for 16-bit apps under wine on Ubuntu 8.04
In ubuntu hardy heron, wine runs into a new security setting that disables 16-bit applications. When you try to install them, you get an error:
preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range 00000000-60000000
winevdm: unable to exec '--app-name': 16-bit support missing
On ubuntuforums is a solution which actually works:
sudo sysctl -w vm.mmap_min_addr=0