Re: Adding wine64 to wine installation (buster)

["Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>]

On 25.03.2021 22:47, Rick Macdonald wrote:

> I've been
>       running a few 32bit Windows programs with wine for many years, but
>       now I need to run some 64bit programs.
>       
>       
>       The Debian wine wiki says "Users on a 64-bit system should make
>       sure that both wine32 and wine64 (or wine32-development and
>       wine64-development) are installed".
>       
>       
>       I have "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian/ buster main"
>       in sources.lists. I installed "wine64". The package lists before
>       and after are below. When I try to install a 64bit program using
>       "wine 64bitprogram.exe", I get the message:
>       
>       
>       "This program can only be installed on versions of Windows
>       designed for the following processor architectures: x64".
>       
>       
>       So then I ran "wine64 64bitprogram.exe" and I get the message:
>       
>       
>       "wine: '/home/myacct/.wine' is a 32-bit installation, it cannot
>       support 64-bit applications."
>       
>       
>       Installing wine64 didn't create a .wine64 directory. It seems like
>       I'm close, but what am I missing? Something to do with WINEPREFIX?
>       
>     
    Correction, command should be:
    $ wineboot --init
    
    
-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

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