hi all,

i may have taken a bite before i knew what i was eating.

i followed these instructions to install wine before i knew that amd64 might require alternate instructions...

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_E...nux_.28Wine.29

i followed the linked instructions and that's where i stand right now.

i came across different instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WineForAMD64
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185557

how should i go about installing wine? should i unisntall what i did prior and then follow the amd64 specific instructions? if my current state is fine, what do i do now to get workign with wine?

tia...

Your profile says you're running on Fedora. If so, install WINE with:

yum -y install wine

mac, i updated my siggy - ubuntu on amd64. i installed it the normal aptitude way, but i've read that a different method is required for amd64.

tia...

If it's been packaged correctly by the distribution, there shouldn't be anything special required. I understand that Ubuntu uses multilib now, so it should not have a problem.

Install 32 bit Version of Wine on AMD64 machine - nothing is lost b/c Wine is 32 bit.

Here is a link to the tutorial that I found:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185557
NOTE: If you want to run WoW on then read through the entire tutorial and make sure you download the special Wine deb that includes patches that allow for playing WoW. The regular deb won't work.

1.
download libxxf86dga1_1.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
wine_0.9.33~winehq0~ubuntu~6.10-2_i386.deb
(you will want to download the latest stable versions of the programs(

2.
cd ~/Desktop
dpkg -x libxxf86dga1_1.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb libs
sudo cp ~/Desktop/libs/usr/lib/* /usr/lib3

3.
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

4.
sudo dpkg --force-architecture -i wine_0.9.33~winehq0~ubuntu~6.10-2_i386.deb

5.
sudo apt-get install lib32asound2 ia32-libs-sdl

Font configuration, once a nasty problem, is now much simpler. If you have a collection of TrueType fonts in Windows it's simply a matter of copying the .ttf files into c:\windows\fonts.

Test Wine:

1.
Download HJSplit.exe, put in
/home/jski23/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/hjsplit/hjsplit.exe

2.
wine c:\\Program\ Files\\hjsplit\\hjsplit.exe
NOTE: you have to escape backslashes and spaces, hence the path looks as it does, above.
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Remove wine:
sudo dpkg -r wine

Good luck!

Since some in this thread seem to use the 64bit versions of Ubuntu, I'd like to pose this question..

What is the point in running the 64bit distro, if you're constantly needing to configure 32bit apps to run properly because 64bit apps are not available? This ranges from anything to Wine, to Browsers, to Plugins for Browsers.

I'm curious as I have a 64bit capable machine, but I just fail to see where the above makes sense. Just seems to make more sense to stick with the 32bit versions for the forseeable future.

IGF

If you have no need of 64-bit functionality, then by all means avoid the complexity. Some applications can take advantage of the 64-bit extensions to improve performance. However, if you are primarily using the system as a desktop, you won't see a benefit (and there are several negatives).