I have Alien Bob's wine package (2.21, upgrading to 4.0) and the recent winetricks is seeing it as a 64 bit package and complaining that most of it's tricks only apply to 32 bit, blah, blah.

Is there a smart option or alias to make it cop on that I've missed? I've had my head in different clouds and want to keep it there if possible; some one of you gamers must have hit this?

Do you actually have a 32-bit wine installed? Is your wine prefifx 32-bit?

Is it complaining about the WINE package or is it complaining about the prefix?

To create a 32-bit prefix, you do:

And then you do the following before doing anything with that 32-bit prefix:

Got this one thanks.

It turned into a bit of a nightmare because I'm rusty. I have Alien Bob's wine package for current, but my glibc libs were a version behind. There's no way to stay still in Current so I updated from last December's to April (= now). But I didn't grab the compat32 stuff and glibc-2.29 overwrote glibc-2.28-multilib :-/.

So /lib/ld-2.29 (the 32 bit one) was AWOL as were any symlinks, and my 32bit /usr/bin/wine went all pouty. You know the nonsensical errors you get from that scenario:-/.

The rest of the compat32 can wait until I have internet back. I'm running the pc off a wifi hotspot on my mobile for Irish reasons.
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