Wine in Debian Sid

[ShaneRoach]

I and some others I can see searching the web are having difficulties getting Wine to work on Debian Sid. What I run into is that you can install Wine, but it keeps referencing Wine32 if you try to run it. If you try to install Wine32 it (Debi's various package management tools) says you don't need it. Nevertheless, without it Wine simply does not respond.

I tried installing it from this site's most recent updates.

http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/

Same exact result. It wants Wine32 to execute, but if I try to install it it says it is the wrong architecture, which it is since I am on a 64 bit machine.

I note "playonlinux" seems to know how to make it work, but from the standpoint of trying to understand Wine itself, that is a less than satisfactory solution for me personally, although I am about to try it in the meantime just for functionaliy's sake.

Any tips or explanations?

Thanks!

[dimesio]

Most Windows apps are still 32 bit, and you need a WoW64 setup to run them. 64 bit Wine packages should include the needed 32 bit parts, and if the packages you are using don't, you should report it to the package maintainer.
http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64ForPackagers
http://wiki.winehq.org/Wine64