I am not able to run wine correctly on Fedora 12. In one of the thread I read that fedora 12 has 64bit and wont run correctly, is that true ?

You don't run wine, you run windows-based programs under wine. What commands are you using and what error messages are you getting? What's the problem exactly?

Wine can be compiled for 32bit and 64 bit architectures (AMD64-based, at least). Which OS version are you using, and what version of wine are you trying to use on it? Are you using a package provided by Fedora, or directly from the wine project?

I am trying to run wine using gui , when i double click on any of the windows programs installed in wine I am not getting any response . when I am running through terminal I am getting the below error.

Does that mean that I have to install wine of i386 architecture ? or I should install only 64 bit Windows programs in Wine ( wine 64 does not support 32 bit programs ? )

yum install wine.i686

I think that should do it . Cool thanks ..........

so Wine 64 bit does not support 32bit programs ?

Win32 programs are supported just fine. Wine (AFAIK) uses the 32bit backward-compatibility extensions on AMD64 cpus to run its programs; it's just that the wine package itself needs to be compiled specifically for the 64bit platform and libraries in order to work natively.

The real problem is the other way around. I believe development for native Windows64 support is just getting started. So if want to run a windows-platform program under wine at this time, make sure you use the 32bit version.

ok .. thats cool . Thats a good info to share with . Thanks .

I can't tell if this is solved.......

If you have any more trouble with WINE, you might want to look at CrossOver (the commercial version). It costs $$ but they have a free trial.

BTW--at the beginning I saw that you were running Windows Firefox on WINE---why not just use the native Linux version?

I use Native Linux Firefox, Opera, chromium and google-chrome, But I installed firefox for windows Inorder to make sure that Wine installation was fine . Because in my experiance if Firefox works fine in wine, I have many other programs that works fine. it might not be the similar situation for everyone. but in my case I feel so. ( it might sound stupid )

In all my the distros that I use , after installing wine I install firefox. I mainly use wine inorder to use MS office. Because if I use open office or koffice , the formatting will be different if someone else open the same doc in Windows. if its a normal docs it might not be a problem. But when coming to official docs it can be an issue .

Please dont mind if I sound little odd

You're no odder than any other Linux user......

Now if you tell me that you like Office 2007, then I'll be worried.......

well , I wont say that I like office 2007 more. I have installed office 2003 and I use that for official docs . for my personal docs I use google docs or open office

Am new to Fedora and am using the fedora12 pls some one post me a link to download wine for 32 bit