On 8/11/14, The Wanderer <wande...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOsGNSRGAZif288Rx8Kr8taqi_hx=0rd=trxypmn8otwbdd...@mail.gmail.com
