rebeltaz wrote:
lol... I like code tags, but after that, I feel I may let you down here...
When I installed wine originally, I just installed it through apt-get. My laptop is running 64-bit Ubuntu, but whether the wine is 2- or 64-bit... I can't say. When I looked just now, I see that the version is 1.6.2. I looked in the repository and the only versions there are 1.6 and 1.4. I didn't know about the wine repositories. I will try that and let you know what happens.
I do have a question, though. That page says to enable i386 architecture. What exactly does that do? Does it have any effect on 64-bit programs installed?
I appreciate your advice!
hah, hah...
You've used forum
Code tags...
You've put the
name of the application you're trying to run (under Wine) in the forum thread title...
What could possibly go wrong?
To install wine on a 64-bit Linux distribution you'll need to enable the
i386 architecture (
32-bit mulitlib). Otherwise your
wine setup will not be useable...
You really have to have the
32-bit libraries of all of
wine's runtime dependent libraries - in addition to the native Linux
64-bit libraries of all of
wine's runtime dependent libraries...
See
WineHQ FAQ: 2.6 Is there a 64 bit Wine?.
If you don't install these 32-bit Linux libraries then you'll only be able to run
64-bit Windows applications - that includes the builtin OS applications... So you won't be able to do much!!
In fact it's often recommended to use
32-bit Wineprefix (see
WineHQ FAQ: 6.5 Wineprefixes) for greater compatibility with Windows libraries and/ or applications.
For example the native MS
.Net runtimes will only install correctly in a
32-bit Wineprefix.
The most reliable way to tell what version of wine you're using/ have installed is typing (on the command line):
Hope that clears things up a little!
Bob