Wine issues in Jessie.

linustalman · 06-10-2016, 02:28 PM

Hi.

I am trying out Jessie in VirtualBox. When trying Wine, it creates a ".wine64" folder in the home directory. Why did it change from just using a ".wine" folder? There's a problem with using PlayOnLinux as it looks for a ".wine" folder.

mostlyharmless · 06-10-2016, 02:34 PM

Presumably because you have a 64 bit install. You need to make sure you have 32 bit installed as well for most wine programs. See https://wiki.debian.org/Wine

273 · 06-10-2016, 04:03 PM

I think that nowadays one installs either wine64 or wine32 explicitely if that is the required package?

linustalman · 06-11-2016, 04:49 AM

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Originally Posted by mostlyharmless

Presumably because you have a 64 bit install. You need to make sure you have 32 bit installed as well for most wine programs. See https://wiki.debian.org/Wine

Hi mostlyharmless.

But I have used a x64 OS for a few years with Linux Mint (Ubuntu version) and it only used a .wine directory. Also in there are folders '.wine/drive_c/Program Files' & '.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)'

I don't understand why things changed in Jessie. Did Wheezy also make a .wine64 folder?

linustalman · 06-11-2016, 04:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 273

I think that nowadays one installs either wine64 or wine32 explicitely if that is the required package?

Hi 273.

I installed just the package, 'wine' in synaptic but this pulled in the package, 'wine64' along with a few others.

POL needs wine:i386 but it's not installable.

273 · 06-11-2016, 06:16 AM

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Originally Posted by LinusStallman

Hi 273.

I installed just the package, 'wine' in synaptic but this pulled in the package, 'wine64' along with a few others.

POL needs wine:i386 but it's not installable.

You may need to uninstall wine to get wine:i386 or, as I mentioned, you may need to install wine32. I've not used wine for a while but I did notice it seems that since Windows has a 64 bit WINE now does so you have to ensure that you have the correct WINE version installed.

linustalman · 06-11-2016, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 273

You may need to uninstall wine to get wine:i386 or, as I mentioned, you may need to install wine32. I've not used wine for a while but I did notice it seems that since Windows has a 64 bit WINE now does so you have to ensure that you have the correct WINE version installed.

I just tried Linux Mint 18 Beta in VB and when I click to istall the package, 'wine' in Synaptic -- it does not pull in wine64.

Both wine:i386 and wine32 are not available in stock Debian Jessie.

273 · 06-11-2016, 10:48 AM

I'll have a look on my Sid installs later but my point is to look for 32 bit WINE to install because the default will be 64 bit.
If there's no wine:i386 package at all it would suggest that the pacgake is broken -- all packages ought to have a 32 bit version available.

jamison20000e · 06-11-2016, 11:25 AM

I was terrible at getting WINE working but have had luck with combining PlayonLinux, WINETools and (especially) Q4WINE, though that was awhile back (plus my major gaming days, now I just don't run m$ stuff.

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linustalman · 06-11-2016, 02:29 PM

Most of the programs and games I use I'd say are 32-bit.

jamison20000e · 06-11-2016, 02:44 PM

Have you tried something like this yet:

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Code:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386

Or if you are using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) or below, use this:

Code:

echo "foreign-architecture i386" > /etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch

Then:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386

kind of out of date though, may want to find newer?