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  • MGA7 32/64, wine question

    From Markus Robert Kessler@2:250/1 to All on Wed Sep 16 13:32:29 2020
    Hi all,

    at the moment I am preparing to upgrade some of my pcs from MGA6 to MGA7.

    My first impression is that there are multiple improvements. It boots
    faster, (intel) graphics issues seem to be gone, just to name some.

    Now, I'd like to also give 64 bit version a try.

    Well, using the 64 bit installation led me to install wine64, instead of
    wine which I need because some 16 bit windows applications have no real
    native linux equivalent. So, during the last years I ran them in wine,
    started from a normal xterm shell.

    MGA7-32 with wine32 behaves exactly like good old MGA6-32, but -- I
    cannot get these apps running and during installation of wine64 there
    appeared the message:

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    This is the Win64 version of Wine. This version can only be used to
    run 64-bit Windows applications as is. For running 32-bit Windows applications, you need to also install the 'wine32' package from the
    32-bit repository. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Has anyone done this yet?
    Does i586 repo have to be included into urpmi.cfg, or any other trick to
    be known?

    Thanks in advance!

    Best regards,

    Markus


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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Wed Sep 16 15:25:35 2020
    On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:32:29 -0400, Markus Robert Kessler <[email protected]> wrote:
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    This is the Win64 version of Wine. This version can only be used to
    run 64-bit Windows applications as is. For running 32-bit Windows applications, you need to also install the 'wine32' package from the
    32-bit repository. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Has anyone done this yet?
    Does i586 repo have to be included into urpmi.cfg, or any other trick to
    be known?

    Many people have done so. Temporarily enable the 32 bit release and updates repos, install win32, and then disable them.

    The 32 bit repos are not enabled by default and should not be left enabled,
    as they can cause problems with some of the other 64 bit software.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From Markus Robert Kessler@2:250/1 to All on Wed Sep 16 17:36:07 2020
    On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 10:25:35 -0400 David W. Hodgins wrote:

    On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:32:29 -0400, Markus Robert Kessler
    <[email protected]> wrote:
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    This is the Win64 version of Wine. This version can only be used to run
    64-bit Windows applications as is. For running 32-bit Windows
    applications, you need to also install the 'wine32' package from the
    32-bit repository.
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Has anyone done this yet?
    Does i586 repo have to be included into urpmi.cfg, or any other trick
    to be known?

    Many people have done so. Temporarily enable the 32 bit release and
    updates repos, install win32, and then disable them.

    That solved the problem. -- Thanks a lot!

    The 32 bit repos are not enabled by default and should not be left
    enabled,
    as they can cause problems with some of the other 64 bit software.

    Perhaps the wine-packager/s may think about including your advice and add
    it to the message above. So this common question will be answered right
    during install and things get even easier.

    Many thanks again,
    best regards,

    Markus


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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Wed Sep 16 19:34:34 2020
    On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:36:07 -0400, Markus Robert Kessler <[email protected]> wrote:

    Perhaps the wine-packager/s may think about including your advice and add
    it to the message above. So this common question will be answered right during install and things get even easier.

    I've passed the suggestion on to the packager who was not aware of the problem since he has both wine and wine32 installed.

    He and I both have the 32 bit repos enabled all of the time. Neither of us have
    encountered the problem where a 32 bit lib package is selected when the 64 bit version should have been. I have no idea what triggers the error, have never been
    able to reproduce it, but the problem was encountered enough times by enough people that the decision was made not to enable the 32 bit repos by default or to recommend keeping them enabled. I keep them enabled so that if I ever manage
    to recreate the problem, hopefully I'll be able to figure out what triggers it so it can be fixed properly.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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