Wine32 has no installation candidate

[edelweiss]

Trying to set up wine, upon using winecfg, I recieve the message

it looks like wine32 is missing, you should install it.
as root, please execute "apt-get install wine32"

System - Debian 11 bullseye
Wine Version - wine-5.0.3 (for some reason, it doesn't update </3)

Therefore, in return, I input

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sudo apt-get install wine32

Which then results in

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package wine32 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
  winehq-staging:i386 winehq-stable:i386 winehq-devel:i386 winehq-staging:amd64
  winehq-stable:amd64 winehq-devel:amd64 libwine

E: Package 'wine32' has no installation candidate

I'm very beginner at Linux so simple terms would be appriciated!
Thanks in advance.

[jkfloris]

It looks like there is something wrong with your Debian repositories.
In /etc/apt/sources.list there should be something like:

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bullseye-security main contrib non-free

If you can't figure it out, post the output of:

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apt policy

[edelweiss]

I couldn't figure it out </3. Here's the output :
Package files:

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100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian bullseye/main all Packages
     release o=dl.winehq.org,a=stable,n=bullseye,l=winehq,c=main,b=all
     origin dl.winehq.org
 500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian bullseye/main i386 Packages
     release o=dl.winehq.org,a=stable,n=bullseye,l=winehq,c=main,b=i386
     origin dl.winehq.org
 500 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian bullseye/main amd64 Packages
     release o=dl.winehq.org,a=stable,n=bullseye,l=winehq,c=main,b=amd64
     origin dl.winehq.org
 995 https://storage.googleapis.com/cros-packages/106 bullseye/main arm64 Packages
     release v=1.0,o=Google,a=stable,n=bullseye,l=cros-containers,c=main,b=arm64
     origin storage.googleapis.com
 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security/main arm64 Packages
     release v=11,o=Debian,a=stable-security,n=bullseye-security,l=Debian-Security,c=main,b=arm64
     origin deb.debian.org
 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates/main arm64 Packages
     release v=11-updates,o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=bullseye-updates,l=Debian,c=main,b=arm64
     origin deb.debian.org
 500 https://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main arm64 Packages
     release v=11.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=bullseye,l=Debian,c=main,b=arm64
     origin deb.debian.org

This should hopefully be the correct stuff,,,,

[jkfloris]

You have an ARM64 processor. Unfortunately, WineHQ only makes packages for AMD64/i386 systems, so you can remove the WineHQ repository from your system. On the other hand, Debian does make Wine packages for ARM64.

Note that Wine is not an emulator. So you can only run Windows ARM programs with Wine.
If you want to run "normal" Windows files, then you would have to use an emulator.

[edelweiss]

oh,,,, that's embarrassing,,, i read amd as arm LOL
asdgfahgdfahfsda thanks for being so helpful!! i'll try what you recced