Should I be able to run MS Office 32bit Mint 20

[drjaymz]

I recently upgraded from Mint 19.3 to 20. During the upgrade, it removed a number of 32 bit libraries. I thought I'd just be able to re-add those and off I go (I had many good reasons for upgrading vs. re install, one of which is that it was a pig to get Office 2010 to work and activate in the first place). I'm not here to discuss upgrading vs. clean installations etc. I wanted to know if anyone knows if its actually possible to run Office 2010 32 Bit under Wine with Mint 20.

The reason I ask is that on trying to re-install the packages I got into a loop whereby most of what I needed .i386 libraries were missing - and then I thought; Mint have made a big thing about how Mint 20 is 64 bit OS only and no 32 Bit is offered. I wouldn't have thought that would mean I cannot install stuff and get my Office 2010 going again - or does it?

During installation these were removed
playonlinux wine-stable wine-stable-i386:i386 winehq-stable

I cannot satisfy the dependencies, I end up at a point where I get into a loop.

I'm hoping someone knows the answer, someone will already have all this working I'm sure.

[dimesio]

You can't run 32 bit apps without 32 bit libraries.

[jkfloris]

As far as I know is Linux Mint 20 compatible with Ubuntu 20 (Focal Fossa).
Did you also updated the WineHQ repository file to Focal?

Can you post the output of:

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grep -r ^deb /etc/apt/sources.list*

[drjaymz]

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cybermax-dexter-sdl2-backport-focal.list:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cybermax-dexte ... ort/ubuntu focal main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list:deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyana main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list:deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list:deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list:deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list:deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list:deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner

[drjaymz]

Completely fresh installation: sudo apt install wine-installer still fails.

Processing triggers for wine (5.0-3ubuntu1) ...
E: Could not configure 'libc6:i386'.
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgcc-s1:i386'.

[dimesio]

Completely fresh installation: sudo apt install wine-installer still fails.

That is not a WineHQ package. If you're trying to install a distro package, ask for help on the Mint forum. Alternatively, follow the instructions on https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu to install the WineHQ packages.