Wine on x64 bit Ubuntu 6.06 (was Re: [nzlug] Wine on Ubuntu?)

[Robin Sheat]

On Sunday 07 January 2007 12:59, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> > Yes, that's all fine and good, but you don't typically have those 32 bit
> > libraries on a 64-bit system.
> Define typically. Mine has. Which hasn't either?
Well, my 64-bit Edgy machine is a fairly typical install :) I don't think I've 
done anything outside the package manager.

> > You could put them there, and it would work,
> > but (at least with Ubuntu) you're going to be putting them there by hand,
> > rather than using something like apt.
> Ouch.
Yeah, so (IMHO, and based on what I need), it's better to not.

> *) Explain the problem to Shuttleworth and ask whether he might want to
> get up to scratch. He makes, afterall, the most user-friendly Linux ;)
Well, there is a multiarch system in the works. I think it's taking a while to 
get into Debian, and so it's not expected in Ubuntu until Feisy or the one 
after that (if not further). But I don't know anything more than that about 
it. I've heard rumours to the effect that some other non-deb distros may be a 
bit further along in that respect.

> *) Recompile the wine source .deb package, after inserting a -static
> switch. Do this with all other 32bit-only apps too (assuming you can get
> the source code, that is).
This would be fairly easy if you had a 32-bit machine handy, I expect. There 
is only one other program I've found that doesn't work in 64-bits (that's 
open source), and that is because in the interests of optimisation they made 
an assumption about pointer sizes. Many close-sourced programs have issues 
however (no acrobat reader, flash doesn't work all that well), fortunately 
none of them are vital for me at least ('cept flash, but I managed to make 
that work mostly)

> *) Install a 32bit ubuntu on your 64bit box instead.
Well that's no fun! You're wasting half the bits :) Also, sometimes there are 
technical reasons why you can't; apparently some machines just don't work so 
well for random reasons.

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