Re: New 64-bit Install: Wine

[Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Baron" <d_baron@012.net.il>
> 
> On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:36:51 Rob Owens wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > > From: "David Baron" <d_baron@012.net.il>
> > > 
> > > On Tuesday 12 August 2014 10:10:58 Rob Owens wrote:
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > 
> > > > > From: "David Baron" <d_baron@012.net.il>
> > > > > 
> > > > > 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).
> > > > 
> > > > This is complaining about ~/.wine being a 64bit installation, at least
> > > > that's what it did for me.  I moved my existing ~/.wine to ~/.wine.bak
> > > > and
> > > > was able to run 'wine Firefox\ Setup\ 31.0.exe' successfully.
> > > 
> > > What wine packages do you have installed?
> > 
> > wine
> > wine64
> > wine32:i386
> 
> Tried that. I do not know about the firefox setup but no .exe's I had around
> would take. I also go rid of the ~/.wine. Wine-cfg also barked.
> 
Just to be sure you have a clean environment, you might want to try creating a new user and try it as that user.  Otherwise, I don't know what the problem is.

I'm running an up to date Jessie, by the way.

-Rob