[SOLVED] Can't install WINE on 64-bit Oracle Linux
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Hey, guys!
So, as some of you know, I've installed Oracle Linux on my Acer Nitro 5 laptop in order to replace the unworkable (drivers and GUI problems) Linpus Linux. However, I can't install WINE on Oracle Linux, I keep getting the message that my .EXE files are 64-bit and can't be run on 32-bit WINE, even though none of those things are correct (my WINE is neither 32-bit, nor are the apps I've tried to run 64-bit).
Anyway, the most important thing, can you verify that the executable console programs I've compiled and are available here work in WINE? It seems to me that "ROSE.EXE" is very unlikely to work in WINE the same way it works on Windows 10 (where it draws a polar rose). Also, I am not sure if any of the programs that I've written in my own programming language (see the "AEC" files in some text-editor), since the parts of the programs I've written in Assembly rely on the functions such as "_printf" being present in MSVCRT, and I can't find any reference telling me that's implemented in WINE.
Making WINE work isn't urgent, since I've installed Windows 10 (very slow) and ReactOS (fast, but quite a few programs aren't working there) in VirtualBox.
We can't call anything on the information you gave us.
To have a 32 & 64bit wine, and I have 32bit libs in /usr/lib/wine/ and I have SIMILARLY NAMED 64bit libs in /usr/lib64/wine/. If you don't have two library directories you can only run 32bit or 64bit; 64bit is basically next to nothing nothing. I wouldn't bother installing wine in my 64bit only distro.
Likewise, my ~/.wine/drive_c/ has Program Files/, and Program Files (x86)/ for 64 & 32.
Run file on your wine libs, programs, and post the results please. Also run file on your wine & winbe64 executables
We can't call anything on the information you gave us.
To have a 32 & 64bit wine, and I have 32bit libs in /usr/lib/wine/ and I have SIMILARLY NAMED 64bit libs in /usr/lib64/wine/. If you don't have two library directories you can only run 32bit or 64bit; 64bit is basically next to nothing nothing. I wouldn't bother installing wine in my 64bit only distro.
Likewise, my ~/.wine/drive_c/ has Program Files/, and Program Files (x86)/ for 64 & 32.
Run file on your wine libs, programs, and post the results please. Also run file on your wine & winbe64 executables
Well, I don't think my Linux can only run 64-bit apps, since it can run FlatAssembler apparently without problems, and FlatAssembler for Linux is a 32-bit app, isn't it?
OK, here is what WINE prints right now when I UNZIP the ROSE.EXE file and try to run it from the terminal:
Code:
000f:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"MountMgr" failed to start: 2
000f:fixme:service:scmdatabase_autostart_services Auto-start service L"WineBus" failed to start: 2
wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\teo.samarzija\Documents\aec\rose.exe.
I've tried to configure it in many ways, but it can never start even the most simple programs. Under one configuration I get that "Can't run 64-bit Windows programs on 32-bit Linux.", under some other configuration, I get this.
Has anybody here managed to install WINE on Oracle Linux?
Anyway, like I've said, that's not really important to me. I just want to know whether the console executable files I've linked to work properly in WINE (they aren't viruses, you can see the code, they are either Duktape stubs to run JavaScript or are written in my own programming language, and you can see the code, as well as the code used to compile them). I suppose many of the people on this forum can actually test that, right?
Not sure this is a wine issue: Oracle Linux is a bastardized version of RHEL and was designed for one thing and one thing only: run Oracle DBs and Oracle app servers. They may not have the appropriate components present in the core OS or the available update repositories to run wine apps. I don't know this for sure because my only experience with Oracle Linux is on servers and my former employer switched away from it because of cost and the sheer number of problems with it.
It may be possible to download and incorporate wine into Oracle Linux but I have not done that.
Not sure this is a wine issue: Oracle Linux is a bastardized version of RHEL and was designed for one thing and one thing only: run Oracle DBs and Oracle app servers. They may not have the appropriate components present in the core OS or the available update repositories to run wine apps. I don't know this for sure because my only experience with Oracle Linux is on servers and my former employer switched away from it because of cost and the sheer number of problems with it.
It may be possible to download and incorporate wine into Oracle Linux but I have not done that.
Hey, listen, if I try to install Windows 10 on my Acer Nitro 5 laptop, I get a BSOD before I can even format the disk. If I try to install Ubuntu on it, I get a kernel panic during installation. If I try to install Linpus, I can't get either the GUI or the WiFi drivers to work. Oracle Linux is one of few operating systems that actually work on my laptop. It starts slowly and logs tons of ACPI errors while booting, but at least it manages to boot.
A quick check shows the question of Linux has been raised in the Acer forum. It seems the problem is Nvidia (surprise, surprise). Try booting the Linux installer with nomodeset added to the grub command line, which is said to work with Ubuntu. For further information on sorting the Nvidia chip, see https://vrodic.blogspot.com/2018/06/...-on-linux.html
But if it runs Oracle, then it should run Red Hat, and if it runs Red Hat it should run Fedora or CentOS.
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