unable to execute Wine 32 bits in Fedora 64 bits

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Tue Aug 6 21:57:23 UTC 2013



Am 06.08.2013 23:47, schrieb Michael Cronenworth:
> On 08/06/2013 03:51 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> you must install wine.i686 for 32 Bit windows apps
>> wine.x86_64 is for 64bit apps
> 
> Not exactly. On a 64-bit install of Fedora run:
> 
> # yum install wine
> 
> This will draw in both 32-bit and 64-bit packages required for running 
> both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows executables. 

and why should anybody install wine.x86_64 to run
32 bit windows apps? see subject!

> The "wine" package is a metapackage that sets up the entire 
> Wine environment correctly

how do you define "correctly"?
my definition is install waht you not and *only* what you need

[harry at srv-rhsoft:~]$ rpm -qa | wc -l
1336

I do not recommend you install
> the packages separately

fine, you can also type "yum install \*", i would not recommend it

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