APT Install Of Wine Demands Removal of Unrelated Packages

[tamj]

I think I'm doing enough obtuse attempts.
This Wine thing hasn't been tested properly on the most common Linux distro.

[tamj]

Come on. I've wasted enough time doing awkward things like USB system running.
I've tried putting affinity-designer-1.9.2.exe in alongside other apps in the "C-drive" but no go.

[jkfloris]

The installer of Affinity Designer 1.9.2 is a 32-bit program:

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$ file affinity-designer-1.9.2.exe 
affinity-designer-1.9.2.exe: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows

If you want to run this installer, you have to install (or compile) the 32-bit Wine part.

[invisible kid]

Just for informational purposes, I googled affinity-designer-1.9.2.exe and downloaded a copy. I was unable to get it going on my install which I am able to run multiple Blizzard games etc.:

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wine affinity-designer-1.9.2.exe 
The entry point method could not be loaded due to Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationFramework, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies.
0334:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFA, 0031FEAC

Don't know if this will help anyone, posting just in case.

[tamj]

That's a help, allright.
So even if I got 32-bit Wine working on my PC, it wouldn't cut it for this app.
No one else seems to get it going convincingly either:
https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index. ... lly-works/

I'm not surprised as there's a determination by Serif Ltd not to produce a version that runs natively on Linux.
I guess we can assume all the usual "commercial" reasons.
So it's no wonder that we are all having a problem interfacing Wine with an application its owners likely don't ever want on Linux.

Thanks to demasio, jkfloris and invisible kid.