No audio for 32bit software

[AS400]

All -
I have been working on an amateur radio project that involves installed several pieces of software for radio communications in Linux.
I'm working with MX Linux and Lubuntu at the moment.

All Linux native programs work well sending and receiving audio from the USB audio device which is provided by the radio itself. That is seen as an USB audio card with alsamixer.
The problem starts when I use a windows program running in wine. There is no audio coming into the radio from the program that has the right sound card selected in it's settings.

In an older thread, I saw similar issue where the solution was to install lib32 versions of alsa and pulse.
Reference thread: viewtopic.php?t=37684

Those libraries are no longer available in apt / apt-get in 2024's current versions of MXLinux (23) and Lubuntu (22LTS). I attempted to locate the new versions without luck.
lib32-alsa-lib (not found)
lib32-alsa-plugins (not found)
lib32-libpulse (not found)
lib32-pipewire (not found)

Perhaps lacking some gstreamer library?

This is an attempt to fix my issue - I write in this board for the first time hoping for some advice.
I did search this board first but I'm confused and not sure what keywords would render the right direction thread.

Anyone with any advice would be appreciated.
My name is EDUARDO, I'm in northern Virginia. Nice to meet you!

Thanks again
Eduardo

[jkfloris]

Make sure you have the following packages installed:
libasound2:i386
pipewire-alsa:i386
libpulse0:i386
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:i386

If you are still having problems, post the terminal output.

[AS400]

Thank you. Perhaps I need to do something to see the i386 packages.
apt search only returns amd64 packages. I will google this.

[AS400]

The impression I have is that the hardware is to blame.
I changed the distro to Mint Linux which has native x86 support and I downloaded the packages you suggested. No luck.
The hardware is an old 2010 Mac Mini (Apple). No sound issues with macOS, only under Linux.
My reasoning to attempt moving into Linux was to be able to maintain the computer updated since macOS will no longer update in this old machine. I found that Lubuntu and Mint with a lightweight desktop bring the machine back to life but, for the amateur software which in part has only Windows versions (Vara HF for example) I have issues.
I will say close this thread and I will pursuit other avenues with macOS perhaps with brew and wine-stable 32bit.
Thank you for your time.
E

[jkfloris]

Thank you. Perhaps I need to do something to see the i386 packages.
apt search only returns amd64 packages. I will google this.

Did you enable the 32 bit architecture?

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sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 

Do the packages appear with apt policy?

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apt policy libasound2:i386