App/Wine behaviour on diff. linux distributions

[superurmel]

Hello folks,

probably my question stands on a wide base, but anyway I give it a try.

I am using wine very successful on my Netbook, using Linux Mint 13 - 3.2.0-23-generic (32bit) with the xfce environment. The wine version is 1.4.

On my desktop pc I am running Linux Mint 17 (64bit) on with the MATE desktop and running wine 1.6.2.

Generally aksing: Is it possible that the windows app runs perfectly on my netbook but not on my desktop pc? By the way the windows app ran before without bugs on Windows 8 64 bit. But on Linux I can't print using the usb printer and additionally I have the "broken links" problem. After installation the app start. The next time booting up the machine, I can only start the app via the terminal.

Any ideas or same issue?

Thanks

[dimesio]

You're using different Wine versions on the two systems, so yes, there could be significant differences in what works in Wine, even if everything else were the same. But it's not--you are also running different architectures and desktop environments; both can make a difference.

In general, the newer version of Wine should work better, and if it doesn't, it could be a regression. However, I don't think that's the cause of your printer problem; more likely, you are missing the necessary 32 bit cups libs on your 64 bit system for printing to work. As for the "broken links" problem, that sounds like http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27706, and if you didn't experience it on your netbook, it's probably due to the different desktop environment.

[superurmel]

Wow,

thanks for the quick reply.

I'll see if I have those 32 bit cups libs on my system.

[superurmel]

Ok,

I did look into the system and I don't have those 32 bit libs (ia32?).
But to say it clear: I can print outside wine apps, e.g. a webpage from firefox. But I cannot print
from an 32bit app that is running in wine.
Do I need anyway those 32bit cups libs?

Thx
Martin

[dimesio]

Do I need anyway those 32bit cups libs?

To print from an app running in Wine, yes. If you never want to print from Wine, you don't need it.