Multiarch in Debian as it Applies to Wine

[ShaneRoach]

In time past when I used Wine in Debian I could right click a Windows app and it would give me an option to run in Wine. For whatever reason, in my new Wheezy install I end up going to the command line. When I did it wanted to install multi-arch support which, so it said, would uninstall wine64.bin.

This is a little confusing to me. I'm definitely on a 64 bit machine here. Even if the software was 32 bit, is 64 bit Wine not backwards compatible?

I'm something of a novice with Wine, but I find myself wanting to get much more adept. First things first... getting it to run again?

[ShaneRoach]

I hope bumping topics is acceptable?

[dimesio]

You need multiarch support for Wine, because 32 bit libraries are needed to run 32 bit Windows apps.