Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine
On 8/11/14, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 08/11/2014 06:27 AM, David Baron wrote:
>> I have no 64-bit .exe's. The few apps I need to run are all fairly
>> old. Seems to be no way to run them.
>>
>> Wine64 complains about the .exe format. Placing win32:i386 on top of
>> all this complains that the .wine is for a 64bit installation to
>> wine32 will not work. Even if there is no such folder (I purged
>> everything for latest try).
>>
>> There is apparently no win32:amd64 so the wine32:i386 and a load of
>> :i386 libs will get installed. Multiarch is great but does not solve
>> this particular problem.
>
> I don't have much experience with standalone 64-bit Wine, but my
> solution for 32-bit vs. 64-bit Wine is to build a combined version from
> upstream (git) source - largely because AFAIK Debian does not provide
> any way to get a combined-build Wine installed.
...
> Steps 4, 5 and 8 are highly manual and irritating, such that instead of
> updating Wine monthly, weekly or even daily, I generally update it maybe
> once every three to six months at best. (Building a patched version for
> testing purposes is pretty much off the table entirely.) However, this
> is still the best approach I've found for getting a version of Wine that
> can handle both 32-bit and 64-bit applications in the same install.
Is that filed as a bug?
Might be the only hope for a better situation in Jessie.
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