Install Wine 64 Bit While Retaining Wine 32 Bit on Ubuntu 16

[notabot]

I have been having problems running games on Windows 10 and have successfully got some older Steam games running using Wine 32 bit on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit OS. However, one of my Steam games wants a 64 bit operating system. I would like to install Wine 64 bit without disturbing the Wine 32 bit installation. Can I do this? I know that PlayOnLinux is an option but I would prefer to use Wine directly - I have had more success this way on the 32 bit system and I also find that I learn more about Wine by using it directly.

[dimesio]

I don't know where you got Wine from, but both the distro packages and the WineHQ ones include both 32 and 64 bit Wine in a shared WoW64 setup, so if you are using one of them, you already have 64 bit Wine installed.

If you are asking about the wineprefix, just create a separate, 64 bit one.

[notabot]

Thanks for your help. When I installed wine I used the following commands
(found from http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/201 ... e-new-ppa/):

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install wine1.8 winetricks
$ sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wine/wine-builds
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install --install-recommends winehq-devel

I then installed a number of DLLs using Winetricks and my 32 older 32 bit games worked ok.

In response to your suggestions I tried to set up:

$ WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg

but I got an error message that the files had been created system was 32 bit (i guess implying that 64 bit was not installed).

[Bob Wya]

In response to your suggestions I tried to set up:

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WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg

but I got an error message that the files had been created system was 32 bit (i guess implying that 64 bit was not installed).

The defauit WINEPREFIX architecture is 64-bit - on a 64-bit Linux install.

This command:

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WINEARCH=win64 WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64 winecfg

can fail, on a 64-bit Linux install, if the directory:

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${HOME}/.wine64

already exists and is configured as a 32-bit WINEPREFIX...

You should see the error:

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wine: WINEARCH set to win64 but '/home/~~~~/.wine64' is a 32-bit installation.

in this instance.

What about:

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export WINEPREFIX=~/.wine64
rm -rf ~/.wine64
WINEARCH=win64  winecfg

Does that fail as well?

Bob

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[wildtux]

Bob is right, but it's maybe better to install Steam on a separate wineprefix.
I can invite you to use my script, because it manage this kind of issues, but I'm not very good to do my own promotion.