Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

[Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net>]

Hi Sasa
You sure you want to use wine. I gave up on wine, started  using 
VirtualBox and just loaded an old copy of windows xp into that. This 
beats wine or a dual boot system.

Gary R

On 12/17/2015 08:12 AM, Saša Janiška wrote:
> Hello,
>
> few days ago I migrated from openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling) distro to
> Debian (Sid) and migration/restoration went fine, but there is only one
> problematic issue which I cannot solve - running wine which I need for
> few legacy apps.
>
> I did install wine, but when I attempt to install application I get the
> following:
>
> gour@atmarama ~/D/b/v/disk> wine ./Install.exe
> wine: created the configuration directory '/home/gour/.wine64'
> Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> wine: configuration in '/home/gour/.wine64' has been updated.
> wine: Bad EXE format for Z:\home\gour\path\disk\Install.exe.
>
> Application is 32bit one:
>
> gour@atmarama ~/D/b/v/disk> file Install.exe
> Install.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows
>
> and it was running fine on openSUSE's wine-1.8.x, iow. I was able to
> install it.
>
> I've another two apps which are also old/legacy 32apps, but same
> problem.
>
> I see there is no wine32 and attempt to install wine32-preloader:i386
> does not work showing broken package.
>
> There are few messages in 'Wine in amd64' thread from February this
> year and I've tried both options:
>
> 1)
>
> WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg
>
> WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine ./program.exe
>
> and
>
> 2)
>
> WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg
>
> WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 wine ./program.exe
>
> which give:
>
> 1)
>
> $ WINEARCH=win32 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 winecfg
> wine: created the configuration directory '/home/gour/.wine32'
> wine: '/home/gour/.wine32' is a 32-bit installation, it cannot support
> 64-bit applications.
>
> $ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine32 wine Install.exe
> wine: '/home/gour/.wine32' is a 32-bit installation, it cannot support
> 64-bit applications.
>   
> and
>
> 2)
>
> $ WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg
> wine: created the configuration directory '/home/gour/.wine64'
> Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> Could not load wine-gecko. HTML rendering will be disabled.
> wine: configuration in '/home/gour/.wine64' has been updated.
>
> $ WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 wine Install.exe
> wine: Bad EXE format for E:\Install.exe.
>
>
> Any hint what's wrong or some workaround?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour