[Solved] Running 32bit windows programs on 64bit wine

[Member dirkd]

Hi everyone,

I’m testing a clean install of 64bit Antix19.1, Buster repos. I installed wine and q4wine but I don’t succeed in running any 32 bit program. My main system is 64bit Antix17, testing repos, and there I have no problems at all. The difference seems to lie in a package wine32-preloader. But when I try to install that, either in Synaptic or from the command line, it raises conflicts with just about everything (e.g., Cups, apt, asunder, clementine, connman, … you name it). I didn’t dare to proceed. What’s going on here?

Thanks for any suggestions

• This topic was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by dirkd.

[Moderator caprea]

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Hi dirkd,you might have to add the -i386 architecture and install wine32 first.

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wine32 

[Member dirkd]

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Thanks a lot, Caprea! This is the first time I ever came across a reference to –add-architecture. Another important thing learned. I guess this has nothing to do directly with wine, am I correct?

After performing the procedure you indicated I could install all necessary wine packages without problems. I could even copy over my old configuration files for wine and q4wine, and now I have the whole bunch of Windows utilities that I sometimes use, without even having to reinstall them in Wine. Great!

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