Running WIne as a 32 bit Windows into a 64 bit Linux System

[jotape1960]

Can I run Wine as a 32 bit Windows OS into a 64 bit Linux OS? How? ???

Thanks a lot for your time!!!

Greetings & Blessings from Chile!!!!!!!


Juan

[dimesio]

First: Wine is not an OS; it is a compatibility layer. Assuming your distro properly packages Wine, all you have to do is install it and it should be able to to run 32 bit Windows apps on a 64 bit system. Note, however, that not all distros properly package Wine; CentOS/RHEL packages in particular are 64 bit only, which is why they are not supported here (see the sticky at the top of the forum).

[jotape1960]

Thanks for your help!!!
I'm using Ubuntu Studio 15.10 and I installed Wine from the Ubuntu Software Center, so... I assume the installation is right.
The issue is about an specific Windows software which has problems with the folders and files path with latin characters (ñ, í, ó, á, ~, etc.). It can't read it. It reads only the path part up the first latin character. So, it can't find the files (music song files, specifically).
I don't know how to fix it and I need to fix it!!!
That's the reason I thought about a 32-64 bit compatibility problem and/or a language issue. But, non of them fix the main problem, here.