Le 12.11.2013 19:46, Joe a écrit :
The government of my country requires pretty much all business taxationto be dealt with by their own software over the Net, and though they offer a Linux fig-leaf, it doesn't cover much e.g. needs 32 bit support, which no longer exists in sid (no, it doesn't work in a32-bit Wheezy VM on 64 bit sid). I don't do that work on the laptop, so the dual-boot isn't really relevant, but it is another reason that I doneed to keep Windows around the house.
And what about multi-arch?You could add the i386 arch to your amd64 install, and then try to install that software. It is what I did for skype, and what is also needed for wine, now. Speaking of wine, it might also help you on that particular point ( ok, I'm not honest here: I, in fact, just does not like wine at all. Softwares which only works sometimes does not interest me a lot... but it might help you. )