Re: Wnie vs amd64

[Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net>]

HXC <hxc@planet.nl> writes:

> Or wine compiled for 64-bit:
> http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit

This is not really compiling for 64 bit.  They are compiling a 32bit
wine to be run on 64bit Debian (or Gentoo, or...).  Instead you could
just unpack the 32bit .deb under /emul/ia32-linux/.

What was the name of Goswin's package which created amd64.debs from
i386.debs?

Personally I find it easier to manage i386 packages in a chroot.
There you can use your preferred package manager and habe proper
dependency checking and so on.  Many programs (including wine) can
than still be run from outside the chroot if there is a 32bit linker
available and the library paths are set right.

Matthias